"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, their ..."
- Orson Scott Card
"Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything."
- Michelle Paver
"The wise oyster stays in its shell."
- Marty Rubin
"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, per..."
- Nick Harkaway
"This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming ..."
- Christina Engela
"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 time of day and no one wai..."
- Alice Sebold
"Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty..."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction."
- David Brooks
"I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into ..."
- Tadeusz Konwicki
"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."
- Chelsea Cain