The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

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

There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

A difficult message to hear is an opportunity to enrich someone's life.

I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.