Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

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.

Family's not family unless it's totally messing you up. I'm pretty sure that's the point

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.

...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.