Tom Wolfe

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

— Tom Wolfe

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

— Tom Wolfe

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

— Tom Wolfe

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

— Tom Wolfe

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

“They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of…

— Tom Wolfe

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of…

— Tom Wolfe

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

— Tom Wolfe

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New…

— Tom Wolfe

“We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on…

— Tom Wolfe

“There are going to be times when you can't wait for somebody. Now you're either on the bus or off the bus”

— Tom Wolfe

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly…

— Tom Wolfe

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

— Tom Wolfe

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have…

— Tom Wolfe

“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they…

— Tom Wolfe

I have no idea who coined the term 'the New Journalism,' or when it was coined. I have never even liked the…

— Tom Wolfe

“...en route to the final destination, which was always to get trashed, wasted, hammered, crunked up, bombed, wrecked, sloshed, fried, flapjacked, fucked-up,…

— Tom Wolfe

“Night landings were a routine part of carrier operations—and perhaps the best of all examples of how a man’s accumulated good works…

— Tom Wolfe

“You don't understand my dis-mounting. It's like climbing a mountain. Would you rather climb the mountain or have a helicopter deposit you…

— Tom Wolfe

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

“Well … things are beginning to stack up a little,” said Gordo. It was the same old sod-hut drawl. He sounded like…

— Tom Wolfe

“It was as if the press in America, for all its vaunted independence, were a great colonial animal, an animal made up…

— Tom Wolfe

“Sir Gerald Moore: I was at dinner last evening, and halfway through the pudding, this four-year-old child came alone, dragging a little…

— Tom Wolfe

“It's like we're strands of wire intertwined in a great cable that runs through a slot . . . Most people lead…

— Tom Wolfe

[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…

— Tom Wolfe

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time…

— Tom Wolfe

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as…

— Tom Wolfe

“That baby sees the world with completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet…

— Tom Wolfe

“It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history.”

— Tom Wolfe

“A few joints are circulating around, saliva-liva-liva-liva-liva.”

— Tom Wolfe

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

— Tom Wolfe

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

— Tom Wolfe

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for…

— Tom Wolfe

“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

— Tom Wolfe

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe