We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

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

I know love is real because her love is visible.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

The American people don't want additional troops on the ground.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.