Top 43 Quotes by Norman Mailer

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

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.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.