Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.