Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is actually a serial killer.

She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.

It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Why should I worry about the biological clock ticking? Saif is 10 years older. He should be worried.

There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.