Roger Zelazny Quotes

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.

I feel like nobody really knows my story, which I see as a good thing, and I'm kind of happy about that.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

A man is entitled to a few secrets.

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

I go to the store. I go get my car fixed. I have friends. I have a life, but nobody needs to know about it. Because I'm just the same as anyone else.

There's nothing wrong with a little self-possession, there's beauty in taking time for yourself just because you feel like it, and there's nothing wrong with not divulging every secret!

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

We're just private people.

I like to keep some things secret. Otherwise, there's no mystique about you.

I've learnt that it's possible to be as anonymous as you want. It's a choice, and I've become very, very good at being anonymous.