You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

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

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

Okay, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.