Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

I had a dream about you last night... you sat in a cardboard box and said you were a tree.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

I have to change to stay the same.