Everybody's vote should count equally in the United States.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.