For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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

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.

There are more than one universe, and its inhabitants.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

I want to become a very good writer.

Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

If you tell yourself a lie long enough, you'll start to believe it.