In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

A film which followed the code of the Hays Office to the strictest letter might succeed in being a great work of art, but not in a world in which a Hays Office exists.

Belief is the basis of intuitive behavior.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.

More important than the food pairing is the person with whom you drink the wine.

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.

I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.