Anonymous Identity Quotes

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

The idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly hard to execute.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

He had a Halloween party and I dressed up as The King. One of the more enjoyable nights I've had. Nobody recognized me. They recognized me, but they recognized me as Elvis. I might have to bring that back to Indianapolis.

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.

When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'