Colm Toibin Quotes

All persons have the right to privacy and to intimacy.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

You want your privacy as a human being.

To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

I allow no one to touch me.

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

It's really not important what my personal life is.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

At some level I've got to have a private life.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Even people in public life are entitled to some zone of privacy.