Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

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.

Why does a heart wear its eyesinto helllike slivers of false sunshine

Hovering above me, directly over the twirling Merkabah, was the cosmic phenomena I hoped for but had not truly expected.

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon.