The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

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

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime

you must never stop believing in yourself, because you were born to make a difference in this world

It might not look it but rocking in a corset is harder than you think

Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

Like sweet morning dew I took one look at you And it was plain to see You were my destiny

Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.