There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — 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
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very… — 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 Image
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 Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — 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 are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
