The unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDALIt is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I’m always an optimist!
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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