TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALTV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALI never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
GORE VIDALI was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDALUntil the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
GORE VIDALObama 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 VIDALLove is not my bag.
GORE VIDALGossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDALBoys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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 VIDALWhat is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
GORE VIDALPolicemen 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 VIDALWhat other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
GORE VIDALThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDALTo a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
GORE VIDALMany writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
GORE VIDAL