The Wisdom of Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a bright, brilliant and difficult man. I'd love to write RIP (Rest in Peace) but he didn't live in peace and somehow it seems wrong for him to rest that way. He did, however, say one of my very favorite things.
Once upon a time he ran for mayor of New York City. He was, to put it mildly, a long shot. Someone from the press (what we used to call the media back then) asked him what he would do if he actually won the election. With unusual, yet becoming, modesty he said, "I'd demand a recount." Would that more of our egomaniacle politicians had such an appropriate sense of themselves.