Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

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

Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise.

Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.

When your songs are like your babies, even the one that you know aren't great, you still love.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'

My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.