I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.