Norman Mailer Quotes

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I obsess too much.

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

Obsessions turn people off.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

In general, I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.

When he was on the streets, I was consumed with Nic. I was obsessed with him to the point that I could barely function.

Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.

I always will be the villain, no matter what. I don't know why.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.