Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.