Quotes by Gore Vidal

The following are quotes from Gore Vidal:

A good deed never goes unpunished.

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

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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

I'm a born-again atheist.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.

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

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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

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.

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