“I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking...” — Gore Vidal Quote

“I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.”

“The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.”

“The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.”

“Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to justify the pumping of billions of dollars into the belly of an ever-voracious aerospace industrial complex. And yes, of course space is dangerous.”

“My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'”

“I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.”