I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Define success by your terms, not by other people’s standards.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.