The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

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 used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Unshaven dudes in hoodies and ski caps look so hip and cool, until they too close to a grocery cart full of dented cans.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

I don't have faith, I have experience.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.