No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.
I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.
I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.
I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.
Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.
Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.
I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice.
I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.
The thing that I really love to do, that I now only do in the shower, is to sing the national anthem.
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.
Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.
It should go without saying that you are not doing anything wrong by having sex in your own home, and based on the care you've taken to keep things relatively quiet it's unlikely that you're violating any city noise ordinances.
I play music but only for myself. For my ears only.
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.
I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.
