Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing.… — 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
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in… — 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 Image
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 Image
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation. — 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 White Protestants… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
