Gore Vidal Quotes

The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Men are odd. If they cannot be first, they don't in the least mind being last.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

حين تُشرِفُ على الموت تتغيَّر ؛ و حين تكون جندياً تتغيَّر ؛ و حين تتقدَّم في العمر تتغيَّر .

ELLEN: Conrad’s a pacifist and willing to fight for it.

Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit cards, they look where you travel. We are totally policed. This is contrary to everything in our Constitution.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.