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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.

I am being adult day by day but the first sorrow of my life is still fresh as warm ash.

Don’t be attached to outcomes.Enjoy your experiences for whatthey are, what you have gainedand what you have learned.

Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.

I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.

Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.