John Banville Quotes

Somebody is always hiding something.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the story behind the story. He's definitely a large part, going forward. A lot of things will come full circle.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

I want to keep people guessing.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.