Quotes by Norman Mailer
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.
Mailer, Norman
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body. It just wears it out.
Mailer, Norman
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
Mailer, Norman
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.
Mailer, Norman