If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.

My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough.

I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.