Quotes by Gore Vidal

Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.