Gore Vidal

“What I like least about myself is my belligerence.”

“In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.”

“Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.”

“Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth”

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”

“In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.”

“To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.”

“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.”

“Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.”