People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
Norman MailerThe horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Norman MailerThe final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman MailerFor 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.
Norman Mailer