A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.