Quotes About Privacy

Unlike most people, I kept my mouth shut about the man I was living with.

Aborrezco profundamente los grandes ámbitos. Sentarme en esas confiterías inmensas que todavía persisten en Buenos Aires me produce una sensación de vértigo sumamente desagradable; un asco certero en la boca del estómago. En lugares como ésos uno se encuentra permanentemente expuesto, fatalmente a la vista de todos. Y eso es algo que sencillamente no tolero. Ocho años de análisis no han logrado quitarme esa inquietud y ese desasosiego.

I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone.

Even your closest friends won't tell you.

If nobody knows the trouble you've seen, you don't live in a small town.

The Internet Is for Porn

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't!

Whether it be to friend or foe, talk not of other men's lives.

The right of the people to be secure… against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

Although we can thus send our thoughts, it must not be assumed that our minds are as an open book for all to read.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.' 'I'm interested you put them in that order...

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?