There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

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'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

When you know who you truly are, the need to compare yourself to others would become highly unnecessary.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.

There are as many types of non-dualities as there are dualities.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.