Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.
Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.
Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.
There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.
I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.
Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.
Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.
I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.
...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.
The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.
Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.