The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease has been withheld for reasons of population policy. Underlying the prevalent health is death. All the movements of health resemble the reflex-movements of beings whose hearts have stopped beating.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.