The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

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.

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

Don't let a strong wind blow you over, take flight upon it.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society