We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
GORE VIDALTemperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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I can understand companionship.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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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.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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.
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