Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.

Here in Beacon, I feel like this was the worst year yet. The entire town, like a lot of winter towns, just kind of holed up in the winter.