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

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

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

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.

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

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.

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