#timelessmuse

"The root [of sanity] is to be found in frustrated ambition, no more, provided we conceive the true pain of such a state - an undying will existing in conditions of hopeless entombment. To be buried alive is insanity" - Norman Mailer

"Since there is also a great tendency for every bastard to become a narcissist– the absence of one parent creating a sense of romantic mystery within oneself... the future Marilyn Monroe was by illegitimate birth already in a royal line of narcissists" - Norman Mailer