Gore Vidal Quotefile (partial)

[supergee]

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.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

[Do you read a lot of contemporary fiction these days?] Like everyone else, no, I don’t.

Having no talent is no longer enough.

Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don’t practice this glorious act.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

My favorite sex fantasy is becoming president, so I can do it to 200,000,000 people at once.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

This is an eternal war against terrorism. It’s like a war against dandruff.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I was hired when television was desperate enough to scrape the top of the barrel.