There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality. - 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.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

He knew that again now. Hennessey’s death had opened to Croft vistas of such omnipotence that he was afraid to consider it directly. All day the fact hovered about his head, tantalizing him with odd dreams and portents of power.