On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty… — 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
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
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing… — 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
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
I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it.… — 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
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
