“When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.”

Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

The NSA’s business is ‘information dominance,’ the use of other people’s secrets to shape events.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don’t want your employer to know you’re job hunting. You don’t spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don’t tell trade secrets to your rivals.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form.

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that’s the 1980s. New York in the ’80s was not so interesting.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food… they’ve never even tasted it!

When you’re on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can’t just stare at them.