841 Quotes by Gore Vidal

It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.

I am alone in my study. I have already put away Julian's papers. The thing is finished. The world Julian wanted to preserve and restore is gone... but I shall not write "forever", for who can know the future? Meanwhile, the barbarians are at the gate. Yet when they breach the wall, they will find nothing of value to seize, only empty relics. The spirit of what we were has fled. So be it.

Nothing man invents can last forever, including Christ, his most mischievous invention.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

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.

We wear the purple

Stay Longer and you will hear the beginning of your death

Never have children, only grandchildren.