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

“Everything in everybody’s life is … significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings.”

— 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

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school…

— Tom Wolfe

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time…

— Tom Wolfe

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say…

— 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

A cult is a religion with no political power.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

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

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly…

— 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

“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

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction is never going to die.

— Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the…

— Tom Wolfe

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

— Tom Wolfe

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

— 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

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way…

— Tom Wolfe