I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

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

If you truly want to speak the language that most people would understand, then you must speak boldly with your actions.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

When I hear music, it's visual; I see things.

I tell ya, I know the best way to get girls. I hang out at women's prisons, and wait for parolees.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.