Norman Mailer Quotes

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Ike must have carried it through the Pentagon on a motorcycle

We found enough fat in the Defense Department to send a truck of potato chips to the obese.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

The only thing I use the Rolling Stone for is toilet paper when I run out.

I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more