Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.
Gore VidalThe Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
Gore VidalI write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when Iām doing fiction.
Gore Vidal