Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

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.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

What really matters are the lives you touch along the way and how you finish your journey.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.

A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.