…because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to...

But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.

We don’t necessarily need to know each other’s name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a...

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires…

Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don’t like intrusion.

As an editor, you develop a B.S. meter—an internal warning system that signals caution about journalism that doesn’t feel trustworthy. Sometimes it’s a quote or incident that’s too perfect —a feeling I always had when...

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any...

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

Who are you?””No one of consequence.””I must know.””Get used to disappointment.

At the top of the slope on the perimeter of the site, overlooking six lanes of motorway, is a diner frequented by lorry drivers who have either just unloaded or or are waiting to pick...

The wise oyster stays in its shell.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

People bitch about losing their anonymity and then get insulted when someone doesn’t recognize them from whatever success they’ve had.

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power...

Anonymity is the enemy of civility.

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Modernism isn’t a design ethos any more, it’s an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity...

These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on other people’s noses....

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty…

On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see...

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew...

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words,...

You can tell a lot about a man’s character by how he behaves when given anonymity..