“True evil is always petty and often incompetent.”

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”

“It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.”

“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”

“Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.”

“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”