Norman Mailer Quotes

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

I'm not interested in people being interested in me.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.