Anger I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. Gore Vidal 25
Lose Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. Gore Vidal 27
Opinion 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... Gore Vidal 35
Opinion At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. Gore Vidal 25
Truth We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate... Gore Vidal 26
Car The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as... Gore Vidal 29
Death 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 37
