In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Every tounge bit had another word to say.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.

I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.