I won't stay in with married Meany more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too suchlike curlingupwith the good book. You managed book Oh, dear, did I saythegood book sighed the witch.

— Norman Mailer

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollipop.

— Norman Mailer

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedom of the press.

— Norman Mailer

Let the passions and stupidities and dreams and kinks and ideals and greed and hopes and foul corruptions of all men and women have their day and the world will still be better off, for there is more good than bad in the sum of us and our workings.

— Norman Mailer

No, but why is Croft that way? Oh, there are The Answers. He is that way because of the-corruption-of-the-society. He is that way because he is having problems of adjustment. It is because he is a Texan. It is because he has renounced God. He is that way because he was born that way, or because the Devil has claimed him for one of his own, or because the only woman he ever loved was untrue to him.

— Norman Mailer

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

— Norman Mailer

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

— Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

— Norman Mailer

Rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision

— Norman Mailer

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

— Norman Mailer