You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Norman MailerThe sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
Norman MailerIf God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.
Norman Mailer