Who said “The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a…”?

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”

“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.”

“All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.”

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

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”