436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were committed in bed. And no weapons were used.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.