Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

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

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.

The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Most of the things I read from journalists are, you know, a little bit simplified and easy.

You know you're out of shape when you have a heart attack when you're watching television.

Why don't we have people like Thich Nhat Hanh or Marshall Rosenberg and Nelson Mandela solving violent situations in a peaceful way?

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.