Gore Vidal Trait Quotations

Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction.

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.