The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

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.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Too often we want to take stands to elevate us rather than elevate a cause.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish.

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

People say law but they mean wealth.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.