436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing.

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

What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers – there are only questions.

Since the sum of her experience had told her that the majority of one’s prayers to God were not answered, she prayed now directly to us, she called upon the Devil, she implored him.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it’s about time.

There is a no man’s land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Was it an hour, or a week before the light of the moon rose in the interior of my body? A bird with luminous wings flew in front of that full moon, and its head was as radiant as a point of light. That bird must be the Khu – this sweet bird of the night – a creature of divine intelligence loaned to us just so much as the Ren or the Sekhem. Yes, the Khu was a light in your mind while you lived, but in death, it must return to heaven. For the Khu was also eternal.

What’s the use of being a writer if you can’t irritate a great many people?

And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. “Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn.