I would rather die standing than live kneeling

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

So let's talk about Islam the way we talk about everything else.

We have to go on until Islam is made as ho-hum as Catholicism.

A drawing has never killed anyone.

I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.