Norman mailer

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

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...

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

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.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.