16 quotes found
“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”
“The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.”
“Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had ...”
“It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.”
“Privacy and pollution are similar problems. Both cause harm that is invisible and pervasive. Both result from exploitation of a resource--whether it is land, water, or information. Both suffer from...”
“The sleeper turns his back on everyone.”
“Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.”
“He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.”
“In any case, I hadnt gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, a...”
“Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.”
“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.”
“I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.”
“The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.”
“Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government...”
“In any case, I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, ...”
