Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

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.

come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." Oberon

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

My mom's now enjoying Medicare. She's already retired. She earned it. But for those of us, you know, the X-Generation on down, it won't be there for us on its current path.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

What a privilege it is to be an American!