You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

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

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

How remorseless life is!