He who matures early lives in anticipation.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.