Quotes About Secrecy

People have seen me on-field, but no one knows about my off-field life. People rarely know that personality of me.

Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.

It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like two actors that get married because they understand that universe. You know, I'm pretty sure the agency's divorce rate is rather high.

I rather think that archives exist to keep things safe - but not secret.

Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.

I love Ladbroke Grove, but everyone knows where I live.

You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.

It's like I somehow snuck a seat at the grown-up table. I'm just trying not to get caught.