Christopher Bram Quotes

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?

History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.

Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.

Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other’s domain.