We are the storytelling animal.

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

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

What does it mean to be psychic? Essentially it means to feel, rather than think all the time.

Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.