On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

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 a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.