Tom Wolfe

“Art is not eternal.”

— Tom Wolfe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

— Tom Wolfe

“YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

— Tom Wolfe

I'm a great believer in outlines.

— Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction is never going to die.

— Tom Wolfe

Put your good where it will do the most!

— Tom Wolfe

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

— Tom Wolfe

“the road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom ”

— Tom Wolfe

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

— Tom Wolfe

“...and now, in the season of the Radical Chic, the Black Panthers.”

— Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

— Tom Wolfe

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

— Tom Wolfe

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

— Tom Wolfe

A cult is a religion with no political power.

— Tom Wolfe

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

— Tom Wolfe

“They presumed a knowledge and an intimacy they did not have and had no right to. Some”

— Tom Wolfe

“He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics.”

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a…

— Tom Wolfe

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

— Tom Wolfe

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried… I have met some Beautiful People…

— Tom Wolfe

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told…

— Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to…

— Tom Wolfe

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was…

— Tom Wolfe

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're…

— Tom Wolfe

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,'…

— Tom Wolfe

The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely,…

— Tom Wolfe

“It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit!…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

“No wonder marriages used to hold up better. Sherman's parents and their friends had all had plenty of servants, and the servants…

— Tom Wolfe

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective…

— Tom Wolfe

“An LSD experience without the LSD" -that was a laugh. In fact, the heads are pouring in by the hundreds, bombed out…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a…

— Tom Wolfe

“I make out a schoolbus...glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and…

— Tom Wolfe

“None of us are going to deny what other people are doing. If saying bullshit is somebody's thing, then he says bullshit.…

— Tom Wolfe

“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw…

— Tom Wolfe

“The Pranksters were now out among them, and it was exhilarating--look at the mothers staring!--and there was going to be holy terror…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

— Tom Wolfe