Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.