That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

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

If I talk about her like she’s a beingIt’s because talking about her I need to use the language of menWhich gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you're doing what you're doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.

The more we complain, the more unhappy we get

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.