Quotes by : Gore Vidal

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know....

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes....

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as....

Foreigners are mystified by the whole business while thoughtful Americans – there are several of us....

It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how....

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is....

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American....

presidents, when not outright telling lies, feel obliged to shade the truth most of the time. This is....