Mailer, Norman Kingsley

US journalist and novelist

wrote novels "The Naked and the Dead" 1948, "The Executioner's Song" 1979 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1980), "Ancient Evenings" 1983, "Tough Guys Don't Dance" 1984, nonfiction "The Armies of the Night" 1968 (Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction 1969), "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery" 1995, "Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography" 1995, anthology "The Time of Our Time" 1998

• "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."
• "People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled."
• "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."