At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.