Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.