'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. - Gore Vidal 1 Share Now -
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. - Gore Vidal 2 Share Now -
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent. - Gore Vidal 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. - Gore Vidal 5 Share Now -
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. - Gore Vidal 6 Share Now -
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. - Gore Vidal 7 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 possible. - Gore Vidal 10 Share Now -
