Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

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