The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.
Gore VidalI wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~
Gore VidalAll I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
Gore Vidal