“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing -… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber;… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. And the vibrations.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's'… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Well … things are beginning to stack up a little,” said Gordo. It was the same old sod-hut drawl. He sounded like the airline… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
