The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.