I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
Norman MailerOne of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
Norman MailerThe war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Norman Mailer