There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

All that matters is that your perception of reality is what you truly desire.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.