'He Was Out to Get Me From the Very Beginning'

The only thing worse than a bitter old man is a paranoid bitter old man.

Less loving is Gore Vidal, who can't drop his decades-long feud even now that Buckley is dead. "He was out to get me from the very beginning," Vidal told VF.

"He wanted me to write for his little magazine. I spurned him, and he didn't like that. Bear in mind that this was a very stupid guy who never read any of those books he referred to and that Americans, being such hicks, thought he was a great nobleman and a real gentleman. I never heard such trash as when he cooled it."

Classy.