Every wife is a culture, and you enter deep into another culture, one that's not your own, and you learn an awful lot from it. And given that marriage is not always a comfortable institution, you chafe in that culture. Suppose you spend ten years of your life in France, and you finally decide to leave. You wouldn't for the rest of your life say, I hate France. You'd say, France has an awful lot to offer. I have my differences with it, but I'm happy I spent ten years in France.
--Norman Mailer (1923- ), in Harper's, September 2007
I'm surprised that he can stand there with his face hanging out and say that, after he tried to kill wife #2 in 1960.
Posted by: The Sanity Inspector | 17 October 2007 at 17:21