The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

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

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul.

Do not give up. Be strong!

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.