Quotes About Privacy

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

I write and share my thoughts with very few people.

Any human being has private thoughts.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying

Growing was only one of two serious matters that deeply bothered Travis; the second was his fear of the dark. How many 12-year-olds still needed a night-light? But most of the time, his fear of the dark was something he could keep to himself and his family, but how could you hide your size?

remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know

Whatever people think of me is none of my business.

strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

I was never afraid of the dark, and till today I see the night as a friend, giving me the privacy that I find so hard to find by day. Starlight, moonlight, early dawn, all have a special loveliness about them.

When I'm writing there's nobody watching me. Today, it's hard to find a profession where you're not being watched!

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.