My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

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.

If you've never gotten your heart broken, you've not used it well.

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards.

All the bravery that lines our lives, in the ordinary moments adds up to an extraordinary, successful life.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.