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
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers. – Gore Vidal
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. – Gore Vidal
During the late ’50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. – Gore Vidal
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. – Gore Vidal
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent. – Gore Vidal
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers? – Gore Vidal
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. – Gore Vidal
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name. – Gore Vidal
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. – Gore Vidal
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years. – Gore Vidal
I began life as an absolute monarchist – on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. – Gore Vidal
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water. – Gore Vidal
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
‘The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. – Gore Vidal