What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.