You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

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 creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

you are ever the only onei want to giveall the peachesin my heart tothe only one by whomi want them bruised.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.