Theres a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. – Norman Mailer
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body – it just wears it out. – Norman Mailer
Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer
In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. – Norman Mailer
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. – Barbara Ehrenreich