It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

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.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance.

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz.