Money corrupts the process of reasoning.

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.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

I've never stopped learning.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I'm also very pleased at the fact we're well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you're going to be pro-life, you should - you should be pro-adoption.

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.