Gore Vidal

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. ”

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. ”

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. ”

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ”

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. ”

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. ”

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. ”

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. ”

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. ”

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. ”