Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.