If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.

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.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

He follows me down, catching his weight on either side of my head so he can leer his face into mine, coiling muscles and immobility at me, “I want you to lay into me. Fight me.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.

We must first achieve peace within ourselves. Only then can we take that peace out into the world and invite others to make similar changes.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.