I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.