Quotes by Gore Vidal

“We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”

“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.”

“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”

“[Howard's] eyes were open and very clear. I'd forgotten what a beautiful gray they were--illness and medicine had regularly glazed them over; now they were bright and attentive, and he was watching...”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?”

“A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the...”

“A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren'...”

“Since nothing is free, to each his price.”

“I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I really do not want to know what people think of me or, to be precise, what they say of me - often a ...”

“Im not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you dont. Move on and move out.”

“Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.”

“I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.”

“'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.”

“In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.”

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”

“What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is th...”

“We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.”

“My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less wh...”

“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”