The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer.
Gore VidalI was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
Gore VidalPeople are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
Gore Vidal