On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

My consciousness is eternal

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Tip to out-of-town visitors. If you buy something here in New York and you want to have it shipped home, be suspicious if the clerk tells you they don't need your name and address.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

The very fact of snow is such an amazement.

I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.