. . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre apes the profound truth that we are extended beings who yet can only exist in the present.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.