Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead. ”

World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. ”

Love is not my bag. ”

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. ”

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ”

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ”

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. ”

I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life. ”

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. ”

I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. ”