436 Quotes by Norman Mailer

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.