Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of televis… - Norman Mailer

I felt something shift to murder in me. I felt … that I was an outlaw, a psychic outlaw, and I liked it.

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.

There was never a revolution to equal it, and never a city more glorious than Petrograd, and for all that period of my life I lived another and braved the ice of winter and the summer flies in Vyborg while across my adopted country of the past, winds of the revolution blew their flame, and all of us suffered hunger while we drank at the wine of equality.