Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

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

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

Look for the beauty in things.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air.