Each 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 MailerThe fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.
Norman MailerThe nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
Norman Mailer