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 MailerThe difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman MailerObsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Norman MailerEach day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer