Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

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.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.