Quotes from Gore Vidal

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

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

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I can understand companionship.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.

My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Corporations must pay tax.

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

I'm a born - again atheist.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.