“Anonymity is the new fame.”

“What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.”

“He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall.”

“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”

“Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.”

“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.”