Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
