“ Was the conquest of space then a potential chariot of Satan, the unique and grand avenue for the new totalitarian? Norman Mailer
“ And with it all, he was proud of himself. He had brought his mother to tears. Let her cry for once. Not me. It is time for her to learn. Norman Mailer
“ There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe) Norman Mailer
“ Sequestered in the depths of the average pacifist—as one will invariably discover—resides a killer. That is why the person has become a pacifist in the first place. Norman Mailer
“ Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and a particular envelope of lusts and anxieties and perhaps some goodness would be q… Norman Mailer
“ What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers—there are only questions. Norman Mailer
“ I heard her calling to me from caverns so deep in herself she was never aware of her own voice. Norman Mailer
“ The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own… Norman Mailer
“ So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. Norman Mailer
“ Politics at national level can still be comprehended by politics-as-property provided one remembers that moral integrity (or the public impression of such) in a high politician is also property, since… Norman Mailer
“ Mediocrities flock to any movement which will indulge their self-pity and their self-righteousness, for without a Movement the mediocrity is on the slide into terminal melancholia. Norman Mailer
“ He was drinking and contemplating his fear. It seemed to him that he had been afraid all his life, but in recent years, or so it seemed, he had learned how to take a step into his fear, how to take th… Norman Mailer
