All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

She owned my eyes. From the moment I saw her. They found purchase on any bit of her that was visible.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.