Gail Carson Levine Quotes

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

Does Patch have a restraining order against him?' he read. 'Is Patch a felon?' 'Give-me-that!' I hissed furiously. Patch gave a soft laugh, and I knew he'd seen the next question. 'Does Patch have a girlfriend?

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

I'm so tired of the privacy advocates.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

Now that you have the Xerox machine, you can't keep many secrets.

You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

We live in the most wide open society the world has ever known….We need to have fewer secrets and a rational classification policy.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about.

Our mobile phones have become the greatest spy on the planet.

I understand people are curious, but it doesn't matter. My personal life is my personal life.

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.

Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.