Cloak of Secrecy Quotes

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Being invisible would be pretty great. You could watch everybody, sneak into places and know what people were saying.

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

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

As a writer, I will tell you that darkness is so easy to make interesting. It is so easy because you're allowed to do anything you want.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery.

I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.