841 Quotes by Gore Vidal

Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, 'I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.' We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.

The United States is a madhouse.

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

Love is not my bag.

We're not a democracy.

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

Democracy is supposed to give you a feeling of choice, like painkiller x and painkiller y. But they're both just aspirin.

Southerners make such good novelists; they have so many good stories because they have so much family.