To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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

Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure, " I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.

Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.