I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

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

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