I just recently read an interview that was featured in New York Magazine about the incredible and brilliant author Norman Mailer. The interview focused on Mailer's views on God, creation and the existence of a heaven and hell. It's ironic that the subject was of the ethereal kind seeing as no more than a month later, Mr. Mailer would die of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 84 years old. He may be gone but the spirit of his work will live on forever.
A few quotes from the literary giant...
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.
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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.
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