Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

We are all products of the failures of the people who raised us.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

He does not require that we live a perfect life. He only requires that we try to live as He wills. The only way to fail Him is by giving up.

Graft at your craft!

The consumer is not a moron. She's your wife.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!