Lilia

“She was a good girl, he said to himself. He was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him so fully, and he felt a secret relief as he realized that she had understood him and still loved him.”
― Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

“The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.”
― Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

“Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.”
― Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead

“The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood