I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.