People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

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.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

Turn your pain into purpose.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I can only go places because I know that I can go away from them, if that makes sense. I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords.

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!"