Culture is worth a little risk. - Norman Mailer

He was full of love — for himself, first, and his prowess — such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her —

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia.