What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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.

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

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - that's important, and fine, and I support it.

A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I'd like to direct more operas.