You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
GORE VIDALYou cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
GORE VIDALAnybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
GORE VIDALEnvy is the central fact of American life.
GORE VIDALAt any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDALTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALEvery country should have at least one King Farouk.
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 VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDALI could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDALSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
GORE VIDALFrom April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
GORE VIDALWriting fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
GORE VIDALTV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDAL