Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.