Quotes by : Norman Mailer

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet....

Let the passions and cupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions....

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are....

I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muchlike....

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

I don’t trust compliments. I’ve been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes....

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there....

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.....

About a week after they had come back, a load of mail came to the island. They were the first letters....

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.