The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

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.

Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

I hate everything about you that you do and love everything you don’t

It was one flickering ember that was almost smothered to death daily. But it just wouldn’t quit… it was hope.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.