Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

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.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.