The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

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.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.

Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.