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.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

That tonight you’re falling asleep in my arms. Waking up the same place too.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.