Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

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

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.