While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality. . . true art lies in a reality that is felt.
To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.
The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.
It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
On the methodological issue, I think that would be hopeless to try to adjudicate between my view and orthodoxy by appeal to phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms.
Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [. . . ] live well and die happy.
Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.