The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

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.

Find the gold in every moment.

I would rather aim high and miss the mark than low and make it.

Special Post-Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Eating Crow" This year, it just tastes like Seahawk.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

I feel like I'm a kid again.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.