“I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“(On choosing to write the book in third person, and using his name Norman as the nom de plume) NOW, OUR MAN… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — 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
“Craft protects one from facing endless expanding realities—the terror, let us say, of losing your novel in the depths of philosophical insights… — 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
