436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

Love is simple to understand if you haven’t got a mind soft and full of holes. It’s a crutch, that’s all, and there isn’t any one of us that doesn’t need a crutch.

It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

Oh, kinda playing things by ear.

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It’s an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.

I live by the law of averages,” said Alois. “I prefer to think of the ongoing possibility of profit rather than of the intermittent perils that surround all activity.

Freaks can be a fount of information.

When the time comes, they won’t ask what kind of a Jew you are.