“Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.” Quote by Gore Vidal
“[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon.” IfsMadeSelfEnergyCitiesNew YorkWorshipSelf ConfidenceMade ItIncompetenceParanoidTruman Author:Gore Vidal
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.” KnowsEndsDreamDesireDifficultImagineChildhoodComfortableEternalDisappearLife And DeathYearningAdolescence Author:Hugh Hefner
“[Norman Mailer] is against masturbation, he's against homosexuality. He believes that murder is essentially sexual. I think he's rather an anthology of all the darkest American traits.” ThinkingBelieveMurderTraitsHomosexualityMasturbationAnthology Author:Gore Vidal
“We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.” EndsChoicesOne DayProsperous Author:Steve Carell
“I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.” ThinkingLittlesYoungDifficultAttentionLuckyMarriedGunHandleHappily Married Author:Steve Carell
“The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.” WellsAbilityLaughingHugeCompromise Author:Steve Carell
“I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.” PeopleThinkingHeartLittlesGuyBitsLittle BitIdiotSleeves Author:Steve Carell
“There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.” PeopleLevelsExtraordinaryDisability Author:Kristoffer Polaha