I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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

Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

The marathon is an art; the marathoner is an artist.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

You have to write badly in order to write well.