One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.
Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.
Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
Today, with the media, the internet, things get out there about anybody, anytime, so there's nothing wrong about talking about your life, because someone else is going to talk about it and mess it up.
I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.
In a town of 3,000 people, there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.
In 'The Transparent Society,' I am actually no radical. I accept that some secrecy is necessary and avow that human beings have an intrinsic need for some privacy.
I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.
What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything?
