Norman Mailer

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back ...

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the high ...

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as t ...

Culture is worth a little risk,

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the ...

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than an ...

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and ...

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to g ...

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptio ...