Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers.

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

The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.

Photography is all about the perspective!

if beauty were time, you'd be eternity

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

The thrill of being ignored!

I'd like to live to a hundred.

The cross is the ladder to heaven.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.