436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

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

I must purchase this eunuch from You,” she said to Ptah-nem-hotep, Who smiled agreeably. “Are they not delightful?” He asked, and looked at the dark bodies of these five slaves with the same love I had seen my great-grandfather give to a team of matched horses or twin bulls, and indeed, since the slave wore nothing, one could see not only their plump and muscular haunches, but the shiny stump where their testicles had been and this gave them a nice resemblance to geldings.

I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The mark of a truly stupid man,” he announced to Klara, “is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don’t understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

I don’t want to retire. I’m not that good at crossword puzzles.

There remained a hole drilled through his heart.

There’s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.