Gore Vidal

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the parasite dies, or both die.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.