Iโm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
Gore VidalSome of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
Gore VidalI don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
Gore Vidal