Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

You deserve more than just being our safety net

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Dig until you hit rock. Then take out that jackhammer and go a little deeper.

I don't need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I'd much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

The only person who can confine you is yourself.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.