We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

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

When your dreams are reaching for the stars, there's no point in keeping your feet on the ground. Take a chance and leap!!!

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.