Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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

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