436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously...

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946.... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz.

Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.

The way you write affects what you say.