Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.- 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.
When I read it, I do not wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
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.
Tough guys do not dance. You had better believe it.
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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.
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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.
