Gore Vidal Quotations | Page 3

There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.

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

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.