Gore's brilliance was graced by his Iraq War Trilogy "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace", "Dreaming War", and "Imperial America".

Gore Vidal Rocks!

dear gore thoughts of our times in the cottage give me that warm glow we often shared. thank u dear man.

The fact he is dead is almost unbearable. My favorite almost an-americanly intellectual American. R.I.P True Genius, the Light of the World. Condolences to America (and the World, actually) from Russia.

i read his bio's and essays over & over......brilliant man that mr gore.

"Alcoholism is the plague of American writers."

He never explained why he titled his biography of Gore Vidal "Sympathy for the Devil". Why? Because Vidal was an atheist? Charlie Rose should asked him to explain why he gave it that title.

EXCELLENT!!!!!!

Very intr.

Where’s the rest of the interview?

Gore was brilliant, handsome, and witty, I was crazy about him. ❣

Gore Vidal is not a purveyor of Schadenfreude, he was devastatingly honest, he may have rub people the wrong way, in his manner. He was interested in truth, not opinion, for truth is cogent, irrefutable, and cannot be debated, opinion is a view or judgment formed about something not necessarily based on fact or knowledge and can be debated. He was my mentor and a rascal.

Vidal was really a product of an earlier age, something I think he understood. He was out of place in an America that was all about hustle and bustle to make a buck...he said Garfield was the best of American presidents and I think he would have been happy at that time...he was in a sense part of Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.

No sense in hiding it..

His arrogance was a shield for personal insecurity. There are clips here and there where he lets the shield drop for a moment. I expect he fell into depression when he lost his sexual attractiveness (in the gay world). Fairly common.

Contrary to popular belief, people dont commit suicide for themselves, they do it because they feel they are a burden.

"Palimpsest"

Hemingway; had cancer.

I noticed that some of these liberal commentaries, that is interviews (which are really not interviews but opportunities for these people to quote from their writings), that you cannot respond to some of the things that are said; comments are disabled. So when I find people, like this man I grew up hearing on television, speaking of gross error, I cannot correct him. Which means on the record he goes unchallenged with the truth! You have children and students etc. listening thinking what they’re hearing is brilliance when sometimes they are the hearing a bunch of BS. I caution you young people to check your facts when you listen to these people reporting history or attacking someone else who is not of their beliefs system. Your faith will be shaken in them I promise! Gore Vidal was one lazy author. In his day he rattled out a lot of cheap digs, and what I characterize as in sincere sympathy. It was easier to get away with this back in the days when you didn’t have any fact checkers. And I mean sincere fact checkers not those with an agenda! By the way, I dictated this remark I make no apologies for the computer misspelling things, improper use of punctuation, or capitalizing things that shouldn’t be.

What a load of rubbish he's got a book to sell