I 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 VidalI suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.
Gore VidalWithout communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.
Gore Vidal