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

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.

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.

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.