The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

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.

A beautiful Soul never know how beautiful it really is, a ugly allways thinks it is.

A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

The audience's expectations are ever-present.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.