I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

Praying leads to the prosperity of the soul

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.