A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

There is no love that is not an echo.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.