“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
—Jim Morrison
"I know a detective who once attempted to disguise himself thoroughly. The first policeman he met took him into custody."
—Dashiell Hammett
"I wear a mask. And that mask, it's not to hide who I am,
but to create what I am."
—The Batman