There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

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

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so.

Arent people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.