We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

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

Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

The FBI doesn't get a dime until [James] Comey is gone. George [W.Bush] tried to warn us he was a trouble maker but did Barack [Obama] listen? Nooo!

I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'

I don't watch television. I know better than that.