The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. — Norman Mailer
The irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. — Norman Mailer
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. — Norman Mailer
Giving a camera to diane arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. — Norman Mailer
God like us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for him — Norman Mailer
Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. — Norman Mailer
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