Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

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.

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

When angry, count to a hundred.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.