Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

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.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

If you're not going to offend somebody you don't need the First Amendment.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.