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

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism