Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

He who is last had best laugh.

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

I'm always an optimist!

I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.