Quotes About Secrecy

Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.

Privacy is a wonderful thing. Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.

They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker. That's a whole different program. Political science, I think.

Sweet Pocket, you mustn't ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you." "Sweet Thalia," said I. "That is a fiery flagon of dragon toss.

Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.

Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence.

Chinatown is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a wonton, and fried.

that ass Sloan had kept his mouth shut, they might not have found out about you.

You'll have to learn to live with that fact and the fact is that I don't hand out descriptions of my life to anyone who asks!

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect—truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.

The many vanished books on these forbidden subjects (among others) altogether constitute a shadow history of America—a history that We the People need to know at last, our country having now become a land with billionaires in charge, and millions not allowed to vote, and everybody under full surveillance.

The secrecy that surrounds any CIA operation makes complete documentation impossible, but the fragmentary information that is now available permits identification of several important examples.

He opened all the drawers in his desk. All were empty, except that a box of staples lay in one. He pocketed the staples. "I already took the polygraph.

The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new geographies, and to keep that world's details far from the public record. The black world was supercharged with newfound life and purpose.

The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American economy.

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.

Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments or tools. They beget infrastructures and geographies.

The loved ones of a Thief are never safe. - Cery

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.