Gore Vidal, Burr Quotes

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.