“I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.”

“Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.”

“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

“I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.”

“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

“Our way–the Western Way–has always been a "work in progress." Questions of life and death, good and evil, justice and tragedy–these are never definitively settled, but must be addressed again and again as personal and public worlds shift and change. We hold our morals to be absolutes, but the context of our actions and decisions is forever changing. We are not relativists because we seek to re-evaluate again and again our most crucial moral positions.”