1972.03.24 Selected Letters to Michael Kandel 2014

1. As for God, in all candour, I’m glad he doesn’t exist for, strictly speaking, he would be a being I could not accept – judging by his creation. (1972.11.10, Selected Letters to Michael Kandel, 2014)

ostoyevsky is perhaps the writer closest to me spiritually, even though this is intimacy with disease, mishap, hell, nightmare, and the spectre of a grave, rather than anything else. (1972.03.24, Selected Letters to Michael Kandel, 2014)