Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

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.

Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.

You'll never know what you're capable of if you never take the first step and try.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom.