There is only one party in the United States, the Property party…and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-fair...
The Supreme Court – on behalf of the propertied few – quickly interpreted the word person to apply to corporate entities and misapplied the Fourteenth Amendment to give corporations freedom from state...
Believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing. In
Mass movements arise from the feelings of boredom and irrelevance that come from living in a mechanized society. Boredom, finally, is the one monster the race will never conquer
Vidal could not not work hard (I find that when I do not write, I do not think). He agreed to do a teleplay for NBC about Abraham Lincoln, which soon grew into the novel that would be his magnum opus...