The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

We need to be homesick for heaven. Though we have never been there, we still have something God has built within us that gives us a certain homesickness, a desire to be there.

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?

Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real.