I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The great power in America is the corporations - we're a corporate country. We're run by a CEO and the stockholders have… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
“I find it’s more fun to write about something that you don’t know completely and that you will discover on route. A dear friend… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — Norman Mailer Copy Share
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I… — Norman Mailer Copy Share
