The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.

I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.