Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

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.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.