Quotes By Norman Mailer

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.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

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

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

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

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.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

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.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.