Let Us Remember Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

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

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

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

By the time he was 25, he had already had more than 1,000 sexual encounters with both men and women, he boasted in his memoir, Palimpsest.