My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

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

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

Love is a two way dream.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

I'm the white Mohammad Ali.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.