We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.

Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

Secrecy lies at the very core of power.