France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.
Gore VidalI'm in Hollywood right now, surrounded by nothing but the sons and grandsons of movie stars.
Gore VidalBetween Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.
Gore VidalWe should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
Gore VidalThese little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.
Gore Vidal