When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

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

Almost lost you, " he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.