In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

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.

Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.