If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

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

Everybody achieves success in life—a blessed few early in their careers, the rest of us when we lower our standards

A place to live is not a place to stayA place to stay is not a living place

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.