Gore Vidal

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”

“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”

“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.”

“It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.”

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

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”

“Never have children, only grandchildren.”

“We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”

“The genius of our class="highlight">ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”

“Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.”

“There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts.”

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism.”

“Envy is the central fact of American life.”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

“A good deed never goes unpunished.”

“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.”