The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

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.

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.

You should never have to tell someone you are a Christian. They should know by the way you treat them.