Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

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 want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

I don’t think of dying, I think of being here now.