There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

- Norman Mailer

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something …

- Norman Mailer

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

- Norman Mailer

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we…

- Norman Mailer

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

- Norman Mailer

One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's recep…

- Norman Mailer

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

- Norman Mailer

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or s…

- Norman Mailer

I've made an ass of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.

- Norman Mailer