The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
Gore VidalMany people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of western Europe and the other parts of the world.
Gore VidalAny American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore VidalWe affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
Gore Vidal