That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. – Gore Vidal
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. – Gore Vidal
Id love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, How do you make your marriage work? I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. Hes this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor. – Sherri Shepherd