It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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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.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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