Gore Vidal Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.