Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDALWashington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDALI remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
GORE VIDALYou hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
GORE VIDALTo invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
GORE VIDALThe media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALTo preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
GORE VIDALAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
GORE VIDALIt is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
GORE VIDALI am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
GORE VIDALWhat I like least about myself is my belligerence.
GORE VIDALHistory is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
GORE VIDALAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
GORE VIDALWrite something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
GORE VIDALTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALFor the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDALI am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDAL