So when Putin goes out to buy a Coke, thirty seconds later it is known in Washington DC.

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.

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are

I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.