In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.
Gore VidalI started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
Gore VidalClass is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.
Gore VidalFrance is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
Gore Vidal