Norman Mailer Quotes

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

The secret ingredient to sex is love.

And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I prefer love over sex.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.