“I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a… — 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
“His decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mind. He could have turned… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist… — 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
