How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
Gore VidalCountry is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes
Gore VidalMany human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.
Gore VidalThe ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.
Gore Vidal