841 Quotes by Gore Vidal

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

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.

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.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.