Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Success is not an event, it is the by product of the activities that transpired before engagement....

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

May harmony find you" Atticus

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past."

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.

We remain where we are. Remaining where we are, we go anywhere we want. We go wherever we go.

I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.