“Once, in a rainstorm, I witnessed the creation of a rivulet. The water...” — Norman Mailer Quote

“Once, in a rainstorm, I witnessed the creation of a rivulet. The water had come down, the stream had begun in a hollow of earth the size of a leaf. Then it filled and began to flow. The rivulet rolled down the hill between some stalks of grass and weed, it moved in spurts, down the fall of a ledge, down to a brook. It did not know it was not a river.”

“There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.”

“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.”

“Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek”

“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”

“We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”

“Organicity is the natural intelligence and wisdom our bodies are born with, outside of awareness. It is … communicated through our intuition—the old-growth forest of the mind, a non-linear, dynamic, complex medium through which nature’s potential is unveiled.”

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”