Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
GORE VIDALOn 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
-
-
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
GORE VIDAL -
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
GORE VIDAL -
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
GORE VIDAL -
Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL -
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
GORE VIDAL -
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
GORE VIDAL -
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
GORE VIDAL -
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDAL -
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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 a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
GORE VIDAL -
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
GORE VIDAL -
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
GORE VIDAL -
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
GORE VIDAL -
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
GORE VIDAL -
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL