You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

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

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

If I weren't out of my mind at this second, I would've sworn he nuzzled my temple.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Space is the breath of art.

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

No, one of the great things about my three-year deal is that it's year-round. They've offered me an opportunity to cover a lot of things in the offseason, too.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.