"Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia / Choke)

"To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world."
— Anthony Burgess (Homage to QWERTYUIOP)

"blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born."
— José Saramago (Blindness)

"Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

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— Stephen King

"Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business."
— Ze Frank

"[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999"
— Christian Parenti (The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror)

"I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
— Gaston Bachelard (The Poetics of Space)

"There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public."
— Philip K. Dick

"Es soll keine Geheimnisse mehr geben, sagen die neuen Überwachungstheoretiker und meinen damit etwas recht Interessantes: dass die Ära, in der Geheimnisse zählten, in der Geheimnisse ihre Macht über das Leben von menschen ausüben konnten [...], vorbei ist; nicht, was sich zu wissen lohnt, kann nicht innerhalb von Sekunden und ohne großen Aufwand aufgedeckt werden; das Privatleben ist im Grunde ein Ding der Vergangenheit."
— J.M. Coetzee (Tagebuch eines schlimmen Jahres)