Joanne Woodward on the passing of Gore Vidal:

“We had a great times together – we always did. I loved listening to him. My favorite quote: ‘Always a godfather, never a god.’ I will miss him terribly.”

The photo at left shows Vidal holding Elinor “Nell” Teresa, the firstborn child of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. It was about Nell, who was born in 1959, that Vidal said, “Always a godfather, but never a god.”