We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.