Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

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

You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.