The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

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

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.

Your limitations create your sound.

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.