Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

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

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.