“ I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure,sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the ho… Norman Mailer
“ With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. Norman Mailer
“ You’ve seen too many movies. If you’re holding a gun and you shoot a defenseless man, then you’re a poor creature, a dastardly person. That’s a perfectly ridiculous idea, you realize. The fact that yo… Norman Mailer
“ Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207 Norman Mailer
“ There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter; it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found more gold. Norman Mailer
“ Arrayed against them as hard-core troops: an elite! the Freud-ridden embers of Marxism, good old American anxiety strata—the urban middle-class with their proliferated monumental adenoidal resentments… Norman Mailer
“ I’m not saying its right to break the law. I’m not talkin about that—but these prisons as they exist are wrong. Norman Mailer
“ When an officer of the law detects a vice in himself, he knows enough to start looking for its presence in others. Norman Mailer
“ I’ve never been to the Playboy mansion, he wrote, but Thyme Hill must make Hugh Hefner look like a spinster having a few lady friends in for tea. He Norman Mailer
