I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
Norman Mailer
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Norman Mailer
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.