Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. Gore Vidal Read Quote
After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets. Gore Vidal Read Quote
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. Gore Vidal Read Quote
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent. Gore Vidal Read Quote
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it. Gore Vidal Read Quote
