The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.