Quotes about Privacy

You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve, by others, once it has got out of your control.

Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused.

While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public. There are many obvious advantages to this. You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.