The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

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

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.

In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.

Words derive their power from the original word.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?