Norman Mailer

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. "

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. "

"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. "

"One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. "

"People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled. "

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. "

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. "