I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

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

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

I want to be left alone.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.