The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.
Gore VidalIt used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind
Gore VidalPolitics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.
Gore VidalThese are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
Gore VidalGreat critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
Gore VidalThese little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.
Gore Vidal