"Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?"

“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'”

“I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.”

“If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.”

Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.170, CUA Press

“Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.”

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 27, 2011

“Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.”