I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.

One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

The free software community should be supported more widely. I’m totally in solidarity with what they do.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.