*The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
*Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
*Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
*Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honour.
*What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvellous and awful, good and evil.
*Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
*There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business
*Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
*The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. Norman Mailer
*In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
*I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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