841 Quotes by Gore Vidal

I believe it’s my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

CO? emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

The garden was at its best that first week in the month of June. The peonies were more opulent than usual and I walked slowly through the green light on the terrace above the white river, enjoying the heavy odor of peonies and of new roses rambling in hedges.

Let the dust take me when the adventure’s done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.

Ronnie never stopped talking, even though he never had anything to say except what he had just read in the Reader’s Digest, which he studied the way that Jefferson did Montesquieu.

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.”

I confess to not having listened to a word of the Declaration of Independence. At the time I barely knew the name of the author of this sublime document. I do remember hearing someone comment that since Mr. Jefferson had seen fit to pledge so eloquently our lives to the cause of independence, he might at least join us in the army. But wise Tom preferred the safety of Virginia and the excitement of local politics to the discomforts and dangers of war.

I’d still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

We wear the purple.