She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

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

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

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 is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters.