Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - Gore Vidal

Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

After four centuries, Montaigne's curious genius still has that effect on his readers and, time and again, one finds in his self-portrait one's own most brilliant aperçus (the ones that somehow we forgot to write down and so forgot) restored to us in his essays—attempts—to assay—value—himself in his own time as well as, if he was on the subject, all time, if there is such a thing.