An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

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.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

He who integrates is lost.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.