The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die. Gore Vidal Read Quote
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. Gore Vidal Read Quote
In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup – reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro’s Cuba. Gore Vidal Read Quote
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Gore Vidal Read Quote
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. Gore Vidal Read Quote
The individual’s desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. Gore Vidal Read Quote
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. Gore Vidal Read Quote
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. Gore Vidal Read Quote
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor. Gore Vidal Read Quote
