Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset…

— Gore Vidal

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a…

— Gore Vidal

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in…

— Gore Vidal

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly,…

— Gore Vidal

Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

— Gore Vidal

“After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The…

— Gore Vidal

Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land.

— Gore Vidal

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

— Gore Vidal

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Gore Vidal

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to…

— Gore Vidal

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they…

— Gore Vidal

“That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.”

— Gore Vidal

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

— Gore Vidal

The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches…

— Gore Vidal

“I believe in justice, I want redress for all wrongs done, I want the good life-if such a thing exists-accessible to all.…

— Gore Vidal

As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was…

— Gore Vidal

USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the…

— Gore Vidal

This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on. Happily…

— Gore Vidal

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

— Gore Vidal

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps…

— Gore Vidal

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

— Gore Vidal

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I…

— Gore Vidal

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

— Gore Vidal

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

— Gore Vidal