“Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.Norman Mailer
“The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.Norman Mailer
“We are a Faustian age determined to meet the Lord or the Devil before we are done, and the ineluctable ore of the authentic is our only key to the lock.Norman Mailer
“Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.Norman Mailer