Gore Vidal
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there’s no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters – based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions – would they make categories. Everybody’s everything.Collection: Country
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn’t be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.Collection: Country
You know, I’ve been around the ruling class all my life, and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.Collection: Country
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.Collection: Country
Politically, of course, it’s to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.Collection: Country
I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it’s too discouraging.Collection: Firsts
I said, well, it’s a very primitive country, the United States, and it’s full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.Collection: Country
You can only have a war with another country. You can’t have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.Collection: Country
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.Collection: Country
I don’t think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.Collection: Reading