Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.

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.

The quality of our thoughts and emotions impact our body more than the quality of the food which we eat.

Ancient wisdom is a present blessing.

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.

You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.