Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

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

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.