Anonymity is suspect — credible people sign their work.

Anonymity is cowardly — an anonymous pen is a coward's weapon, which stabs in the dark.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Anonymity is often a ruse. An anonymous gift is a donation by someone who hopes everyone will find out without his telling them.

Authorship is an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession.

Authorship is overrated. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Authorship is part and parcel of the work itself: a poem is often good until one knows who wrote it.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

Camouflage is a protective mechanism used by the vulnerable to blend in with the background, as with certain insects, military personnel, or white people who use phrases like "I can dig it" when addressing an African-American audience.

Camouflage is a clothing pattern that makes you blend in when you're in the woods, but when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like, 'Hey, there's an asshole'.

Concealment is impossible with some matters — You cannot pack awls in a sack.

Concealment is that by which evil is nourished and grows.

Concealment is a process that not only withholds reality from us, it also shelters it and lets it be, deeper than the thin facades through which they become visible to us. It guards what is secret

Concealment is not just something that robs or deprives us of beings—it also preserves what is proper to the things.