The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

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

Blessings always come in the silence of learning at the hand of God

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Live simply so others may simply live

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.