Gore Vidal

"Must one have a heart of stone to read The Ballad of Reading Gaol without laughing? And did not De Profundis plumb for all time the shallows of the most reported love affair of the past hundred years,…"

"The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love."

"The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to…"

"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."

"In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling."

"I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting."

"The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy sexu…"

"One year after 9/11, we still don't know by whom we were struck that infamous Tuesday, or for what true purpose. But it is fairly plain to many civil-libertarians that 9/11 applied not only to much of…"