I'm a born-again atheist.

— Gore Vidal

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it, or you don’t. Move on and move out.

— Gore Vidal

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

— Gore Vidal

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

— Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

— Gore Vidal

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.

— Gore Vidal

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

— Gore Vidal

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

— Gore Vidal

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

— Gore Vidal

It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.

— Gore Vidal