Gore Vidal

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.