Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALActually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALIn writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
GORE VIDALAs 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.
GORE VIDALNearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
GORE VIDALWhat I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDALWhen I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALRemember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
GORE VIDALOur form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
GORE VIDALUntil very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
GORE VIDALThe first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
GORE VIDALThere is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
GORE VIDALThe greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
GORE VIDAL