With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman MailerNo physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
Norman MailerThe horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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