The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

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 knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

Happiness is a talent like any other. It's another art form. Some people are good at it, some people aren't.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.