Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

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.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

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