The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
Gore VidalBy and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.
Gore VidalIf the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
Gore Vidal