“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”

“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”

“I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”

“You can keep it a secret…. But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.”

“"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?"
"I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."”

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

“A place to keep all your secrets”

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, c. 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”