Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.