There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. - Norman Mailer
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. - Norman Mailer
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. - Norman Mailer
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. - Norman Mailer
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. - Norman Mailer
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture - Norman Mailer
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. - Norman Mailer
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. - Norman Mailer
At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind. - Norman Mailer
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. - Norman Mailer
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. - Norman Mailer
Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration. - Norman Mailer
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer
You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. - Norman Mailer
Boredom slays more of existence than war. - Norman Mailer