There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

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

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

If we don't believe in Americans, who will? I do believe. I've seen it in the people of our very typical corner of the nation.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

We live in a very complex world.