It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
Gore VidalIn fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death
Gore VidalI think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
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 Vidal