The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
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.
You want a little talent on that?
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something I think I can gain comfort with by practice. It was a real struggle for me while writing memoir to get past three pages or so. In poems, I can write long poems. But length in prose: no.
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work. ' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.