The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

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

People know what they want because they know what other people want.

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

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.