Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
Norman MailerMasculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman MailerI become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
Norman MailerThe Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.
Norman MailerThe White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.
Norman Mailer