Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.

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

We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

Everything is determined by your interpretation of what happens. You can change the meaning of what happens through your perception of events or memories.

So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

Their throats were bare for God.

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation?

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.