I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the mos… - Norman Mailer

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

We are as ugly as animals in our fashion, and unless we deal with the ugliness in ourselves, unless we deal with the violence in ourselves, the brutality in ourselves, and find some way to sublimate it, just to use Freud's term, into something slightly higher, we're never going to get anywhere with anything.

Kennedy's most characteristic quality is the remote and private air of a man who has traversed some lonely terrain of experience, of loss and gain, of nearness to death, which leaves him isolated from the mass of others.