The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

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.

If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be wasted.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

Hoboken is a neat place.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.