436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness - the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.