There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

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.

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.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Timetick tocksays the clockwhirrling bynever shyquietly passlayer upon grassuntil time has gone.than you die.

I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.