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.
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
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.