As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.