436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

If the world turned Fascist, if Cummings had his century, there was a little thing he could do. There was always terrorism. But a neat terrorism with nothing sloppy about it, no machine guns, no grenades, no bombs, nothing messy, no indiscriminate killing. Merely the knife and the garrote, a few trained men, and a list of fifty bastards to be knocked off, and then another fifty.

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

Where, in what cemetery of the heavens, did the tender words of lovers rest when they loved no longer?

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek

In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.

It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.

Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.