Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of the population vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, seizure of property, and so on.
Gore VidalI am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.
Gore VidalIn a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
Gore Vidal