“He's a tremendously sexy man. There's a deep sweetness in him, in spite of everything, sort of like Sinatra, you love him anyway in spite of all the awful things he may have done. (Mailer stabbed his wife with a pen knife/propositioned other women in front of her/once bit off part of the ear of actor Rip Torn/called himself an enemy of birth control and said he doubted there would be a really exciting woman writer until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale."”
