Quotes About Privacy

No one was dancing, least of all us, because I don't dance in public. My body's a private thing; it doesn't belong to the world at large.

friends will be much apart.they will respect more other's privacy than their communion.

It was also horribly embarrassing, and the fact that none of them knew she could sense their emotions only made it worse. It was as if she stood outside their windows, listening to whispered conversations they'd never meant to share with her, and the fact that she had no choice—that she could no longer not sense the feelings of those about her—only made her feel perversely guilty when she did.

I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19

Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me. Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.

our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.

Pop fiction falls between the private and personal world of the home and the outside world of the publishers, studios, record labels and broadcasters, massive corporations which threaten to turn the most fundamental quality of human beings – our unending love of communication – into big business and, at its worst, propaganda.

My skirts aren't a theater curtain for you to peep through," she hissed. "Impatient for the show to begin," he answered, unrepentant.

Being under my own roof, and my personality not invaded by others makes a lot of difference in my outlook on life and everything. Oh, to be once more alone in a house!

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

I have another secret Twitter account.

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

It's weird when somebody I don't know from Adam knows my face and knows my name.

The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.

One of the reasons I didn't tell people I had cancer was I thought it might affect work.

Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

'I Think We're Alone Now' is one of the all-time great songs.

I want to be alone.

I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.