Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. - Norman Mailer

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity — it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

The concept of hero is antagonistic to impersonal social progress, to the belief that social ills can be solved by social legislating, for it sees a country as all-but-trapped in its character until it has a hero who reveals the character of the country to itself.