In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as though it's takin' a century to get to it!

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.