What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da

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

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.