And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

I treat all my projects the same. They're all time capsules of where I am at the time and what I'm thinking about.

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.