Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.