Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.
Norman MailerI did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously.
Norman MailerThe final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman MailerThere are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.
Norman MailerWe divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.
Norman Mailer