436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.