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.

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.

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.

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

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

Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut.

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

There are no nudists in cold places.