Quotes by : Gore Vidal

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more significant....

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.....

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

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

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into....

The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No....

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe and....

To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions.....

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that....