Tom Wolfe Quotes

Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old ...

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what ...

Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoy...

Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don...

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comr...

That's not the end of the world! This is the time to cut loose! To really learn about everything! To...

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedl...

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short...

In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the...

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday...

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you b...

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward A...

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the ...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to rememb...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The...

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspir...

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and...

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now...

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to ev...

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting you have th...

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

A person has all sorts of lags built into him, Kesey is saying. One, the most basic, is the sensory ...

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a co...

A cult is a religion with no political power.