WIST

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Mailer (b. 1923) American novelist, journalist
(Attributed)

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer (b. 1923) American novelist, journalist
The Deer Park (1955)

I have some obsession with how God exists. Is He an essential god or an existential god; is He all-powerful or is He, too, an embattled existential creature who may succeed or fail in His vision?

Norman Mailer (b. 1923) American novelist, journalist
Interview by Steven Marcus (1963)
In G. Plimpton, ed., Writers at Work: Third Series (1967)