Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

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

Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences

I'm not changed it’s just I grew up and you should try too.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.

I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.