What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

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

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

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.