The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

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.

To flourish in life is to live according to the laws of the kingdom that God ordained

Drama is based on the Mistake.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can’t possibly write a line you do it anyhow.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.