After being asked "Does someone as sophisticated as you are submit yourself to the conspiracy theory of history?""
1980s, At The David Susskind Show (1980)

“My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").”

Gore Vidal

"On Flying" (1985)
1980s, At Home (1988)

“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

Gore Vidal

Preface to Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship http://books.google.com/books?id=LXFbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem&quot; (1969) <br class="br">Preface to Sex, Death, and Money http://books.google.com/books?id=54JBAAAAIAAJ&q=&quot;There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem&quot; (1969) <br class="br">1960s

“Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.”

Gore Vidal

2000s, What I've Learned (2008)

“Books always cost more in those cities where they are least read!”

Gore Vidal

Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380

“I complain about the United States not being Athens. I certainly say we are a very good Roman republic, and the lies are based upon the most advanced techniques of advertising, which is the only art form my country has ever created — the television commercial — and we sell soap and presidents in the same fashion. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”

Gore Vidal

2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)

“You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.”

Gore Vidal

On American Altruism http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=338 <br class="br">2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)

“There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.”

Gore Vidal

2000s, What I've Learned (2008)

“The reason no one has yet been able to come up with a good word to describe the homosexualist (sometimes known as gay, fag, queer, etc.) is because he does not exist. The human race is divided into male and female. Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex, many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is the fact of our nature and not worth fretting about.”

Gore Vidal

"Sex Is Politics" (1979).
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“Constantine was never a true Galilean; he merely used Christianity to extend his dominion over the world. He was a shrewd professional soldier, badly educated and not in the least interested in philosophy, though some perverse taste in him was hugely satisfied by doctrinal disputes; the mad haggling of bishops fascinated him.”

Gore Vidal

Source: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 2

“By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.”

Gore Vidal book Lincoln

Source: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 3: Lincoln, p. 78