The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.
Norman MailerMasculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman MailerThe 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 MailerPart of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.
Norman Mailer