In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.

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.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

Even not choosing is a choice.

Humility is a byproduct of enduring success.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.