I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered. — 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
There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without… — 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
In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary…… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War… — 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
I can't get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is… — 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
The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and… — 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
