"I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought."

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

"I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international."

"My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged."

"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."

"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."

"There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre."

"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."