Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.
Gore VidalThe worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
Gore VidalFrance is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
Gore VidalIf Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
Gore Vidal