“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”

“The evil always comes from details.”

“Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.”

“Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.”