Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit…

— Gore Vidal

Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting…

— Gore Vidal

“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.”

— Gore Vidal

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

— Gore Vidal

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a…

— Gore Vidal

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

— Gore Vidal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

— Gore Vidal

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the…

— Gore Vidal

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

— Gore Vidal

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

— Gore Vidal

Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

— Gore Vidal

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

— Gore Vidal

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense…

— Gore Vidal

“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our…

— Gore Vidal