The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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.

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.