If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Quotes
We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCSecrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621