The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
From Norman Mailer
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
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