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 Gore Vidal Quotation"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." "A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships." "In the next few years, the empire is going to strike back at the Internet in the interest of protecting our children from porn, drugs and terrorism - all of which the U.S. government will claim is being peddled by the Internet. There is not a trick they won't pull to get control. After all, what better way to control everyone's mind, or at least the input of information?" (Asked to describe self in one word): "Realist." "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." "Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one — and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them." "Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences." "Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world." [in the Secular Humanist Bulletin, Summer 1995] "The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death." "I'm a born-again atheist." "I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system." [1988] Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. "One day the Bush family may develop conscience and they may develop some idea of statesmanship. But that day is nowhere near, that the Bush family will ever be anything but dishonorable. And so, we can't wait, but we've got to discuss how they have dishonored us and what they have done wrong, and replace them - with anything, at the moment." May 23, 2004 "I find stupidity very exciting. And I'm excited all day long." [Regarding USA being an empire] "It is a pointless empire, which gives a satirist like me great pleasure, the fact that nothing makes any sense." "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." Movie Title: With Honors (1994) as Proffesor Pitkannan: Simon Wilder : You asked the question, sir, now let me answer it. The beauty of the Constitution is that it can always be changed. The beauty of the Constitution is that it makes no set law other than faith in the wisdom of ordinary people to govern themselves. Proffesor Pitkannan : Faith in the wisdom of the people is exactly what makes the Constitution incomplete and crude. Simon Wilder : Crude? No, sir. Our "founding parents" were pompous, white, middle-aged farmers, but they were also great men. Because they knew one thing that all great men should know: that they didn't know everything. Sure, they'd make mistakes, but they made sure to leave a way to correct them. The president is not an "elected king," no matter how many bombs he can drop. Because the "crude" Constitution doesn't trust him. He's just a bum, okay Mr. Pitkannan? He's just a bum. Simon Wilder : Which door do I leave from? Proffesor Pitkannan : At Harvard we don't end our sentences with prepositions. Simon Wilder : Okay. Which door do I leave from, asshole? |
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