436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.