“-----What is more punishedamong the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire? among the hate-filledthan hate? among the frightened than fear?”

“The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.”

“Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another - childhood to maturity, "bad" to "good," beginning to end - but a wheel turning around a point that shifts between hope and despair. "At the still point of the turning world," the job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.”

“... and he kills without fear, or anger, or hate, with regret even, simply because its necessary. That's rare, and it's rare still among the really first-rate. God help the enemy that finally frightens him or makes him mad.”

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.”