It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create one world. Instead of one world, we have star wars, and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.
Gore VidalAll I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
Gore VidalI deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.
Gore Vidal