Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDALI’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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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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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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