The New York Times recently did an interview with octogenarian author Gore Vidal. Apparently Mr. Vidal hates everything and everyone on god’s green earth, and that makes for a hilarious interview. Here’s an excerpt:

Are you saying your novels have been critically neglected? I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. I’ve never had much attention paid by critics — nor has anybody else in the United States of America, as Mr. Obama likes to call it.

And what about Mr. McCain? Disaster. Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?

Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. That’s what he tells us.

Priceless.  Click through for more cantankerous curmudgeoning.  (via Digg)