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“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”

Norman Mailer book Advertisements for Myself

"Advertisement for Myself on the Way Out"
Advertisements for Myself (1959)

“All too often men with physical courage are disappointing in their moral imagination.”

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“Everyone from the meanest starving cripple to an ambitious young man could expand to the optimism of an improving future because the man offered an unspoken promise of a future which would be rich.”

Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)

“I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.”

Interview for French TV (1998)

“There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.”

As quoted in The International Herald Tribune (24 January 1992)