Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.