On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore VidalI do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
Gore VidalMovie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do.
Gore Vidal