The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
Norman Mailer quote The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
Norman Mailer quote The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
Norman Mailer quote The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level
Norman Mailer quote 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 quote The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Norman Mailer quote There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Norman Mailer quote There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Norman Mailer quote Biography
American novelist 1923-