The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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.

Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!

Oh I don't know, ' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey

What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.