In an interview with Times Online, gay writer and pioneer Gore Vidal unleashes his tongue on pretty much every topic imaginable. And you know what? I’m so glad he did.
On America: “We’ll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together.”
On Obama: “I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we’ve had in that position for a long time. But he’s inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters.”
On Hillary: “Hillary knows more about the world and what to do with the generals. History has proven when the girls get involved, they’re good at it.”
On gay relationships: “Don’t make the error that schoolteacher idiots make by thinking that gay men’s relationships are like heterosexual ones. They’re not.”
On Edmund White: “He’s a filthy, low writer. He likes to attack his betters, which means he has a big field to go after.”
On being President himself: “I would have liked to have been president, but I never had the money.”
On what he’s most proud of: “My usual answer to ‘What am I proudest of?’ is my novels, but really I am most proud that, despite enormous temptation, I have never killed anybody and you don’t know how tempted I have been.”
Do I have a crush on an 83-year-old man? Honestly, this interview is very much worth reading in full.
30. September 2009 at 7:19 pm
So how are they different? Boy I wish the Times had pressed him on that one.
30. September 2009 at 10:34 pm
Vidal has played his curmudgeon thing for far too long. Boring.