Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALI am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
GORE VIDALNever have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALA racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDALI never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDALOn September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALIn classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALIn the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
GORE VIDALNow you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALI can understand companionship.
GORE VIDALI cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
GORE VIDAL