Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain.
Source: The Presidential Papers, Preface, 1963.
-- Norman Mailer, (Jan 31 1923-2007), US novelist, journalist; He won a 1980 Pulitzer for The Executioner's Song and wrote The Naked and the Dead, 1948.