Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Norman MailerWith the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman MailerAny workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
Norman MailerIf you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.
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 Mailer