Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

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

Like I don't have anything better to do than think about you every minute you're gone?" "Every minute?" He smiled a little.

Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.