The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman MailerI 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.
Norman MailerMasculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman MailerThe difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman MailerIndeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
Norman Mailer