841 Quotes by Gore Vidal

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

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).