Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

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.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!' - Roga Danar

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities, and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them.That isn’t my story.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.