Palimpsest Quotes

“Most young men, particularly attractive ones, have sexual relations with their own kind. I suppose this is news to those who believe in the two teams: straight, which is good and unalterable; queer, which is bad and unalterable unless it proves to be only a Preference, which must then, somehow, be reversed, if necessary by force.”
― Gore Vidal, Palimpsest

“...I am neither a believer in an afterlife nor a mystic, and unlike Santayana, I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like. Yet I still want Jimmie to be somewhere, if only on this page.”
― Gore Vidal, Palimpsest