To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.