The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

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.

I’ll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don’t mind that, I don’t mind listening.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.