People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every… — 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
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
It's very bad to write a novel by act of will. I can do a book of nonfiction work that way -… — 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
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'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. — 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
The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about… — 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 don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give… — 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
