evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.