The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

— Norman Mailer

“One man's anxiety can fill a medium size dorm. Everything is a battlefield when your dreams are ants.”

— Karin Randolph

“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called…

— William Manchester

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

— Joan Collins

“century: “As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines.”

— Sidney Rosen

We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be…

— Vince Lombardi

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

— Norman Mailer

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil