Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

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.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Read nature nature is a friend to truth.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

So natural to man is the practice of violence that our indulgence allows the slightest provocation, the most disputable right, as a sufficient ground of national hostility.

Where the countenance is fair, there need no colors.

Michael Phelps and Willie Nelson are teaming up to do an album. ... They're covering The Doobie Brothers.

You can't define the future. And in my opinion, you can't define the avant-garde.