With death comes honesty.

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

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. – Lord Krishna.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.