The best Quotes by Gore Vidal

The best Quotes by Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
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.