Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

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

Typical St Mary’s. When the chips are down we don’t whine and we don’t run – we do some damage.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.