Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. Norman Mailer Read Quote
There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. Norman Mailer Read Quote
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube. Norman Mailer Read Quote
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. Norman Mailer Read Quote
It’s not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway. Norman Mailer Read Quote
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. Norman Mailer Read Quote
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. Norman Mailer Read Quote
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. Norman Mailer Read Quote
