In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
Gore VidalIt 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 VidalToday's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore VidalIt is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal