God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. - Norman Mailer

Americans have been leading a double life, and our history has moved on two rivers, one visible, the other underground; there has been the history of politics which is concrete, factual, practical and unbelievably dull if not for the consequences of the actions of some of these men; and there is a subterranean river of untapped, ferocious, lonely and romantic desires, that concentration of ecstasy and violence which is the dream life of the nation.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.