He who integrates is lost.

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.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Angels are just pretty insects.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

No one is entertained by economics.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.