Quotes About Privacy

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.

My mom told me when I was younger that when you jack off all of your dead relatives are watching. But then I figured who were they going to tell.

I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

I don't talk about money.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Sometimes my mother goes through my socks and underwear. I wouldn't mind, but it tickles so much!

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.