I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

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.

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.

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.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.