What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents?

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

That's what keeps me going. Everywhere I go there are young people with shining eyes wanting to tell me, "Dr. Jane, we're going to make the world a better place."

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!