There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in adver… - Norman Mailer

America is a nation of experts without roots; we are always creating tacticians who are blind to strategy and strategists who cannot take a step, and when the culture has finished its work the institutions handcuff the infirmity.

You carried it alone as long as you could, and then you weren't strong enough to take it any longer. You kept fighting everything, and everything broke you down, until in the end you were just a little goddam bolt holding on and squealing when the machine went too fast.

You're contending with a genius, D.J. is his name, only American alive who could outtalk Cassius Clay, that's lip.