Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman MailerAny war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Norman MailerThree miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.
Norman MailerThere's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
Norman Mailer