Quote of the Day

"I hate Russia (the govt. not the people), I do not admire her as you do. Admitting that her offensiveness and organization were dictated by the pressure of the world, the fact still remains that she stands now as a strangler to freedom of the individual, and I fear she is on a totalitarian trek from which there is no retreat."

-Norman Mailer, from a letter to Beatrice Mailer, February, 1946

This and other letters from Mailer were recently published in The New Yorker article In the Ring: Grappling With the Twentieth Century.