Norman Mailer

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

I hate everything which is not in myself.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.