To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

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 most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Somebody, somewhere Wants me and needs me And that's very wonderful to know.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

The world has far too much morality.