If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

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

Life is but words.

Never give up on yourself.

Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

When you fall in love with someone's personality everything about them becomes beautiful.

...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.