The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

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.

Human mind is the most unreliable thing in the universe. So control it.

Riley was... a really good kisser

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

"Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one."

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

Books can take you places.