'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. -Gore Vidal Teacher
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. -Gore Vidal Politics
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. -Gore Vidal Hope
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. -Gore Vidal War
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. -Gore Vidal Space
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. -Gore Vidal Anger
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. -Gore Vidal Death
The 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 Car
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. -Gore Vidal Sad
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. -Gore Vidal Truth
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 what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.' -Gore Vidal Courage
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. -Gore Vidal Politics
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. -Gore Vidal Money
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 the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. -Gore Vidal Knowledge
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. -Gore Vidal Government
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. -Gore Vidal Great
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -Gore Vidal Politics
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. -Gore Vidal Politics
