He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

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.

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

All work is an act of philosophy.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!

Defeat is always momentary.

For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.