All Tom Wolfe Quotes
- There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first… All
- If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. Arrested
- It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make… All
- The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and… Belief
- A cult is a religion with no political power. Atheism
- Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. Expression
- Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. Days
- I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. Easy
- On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. Become Precisely
- The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Cure
- Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice. Admit
- God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. Been
- I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. Backward
- I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for. Journalist
- I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. Believe
- I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. Age
- I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I… Bad
- I'm a great believer in outlines. Believer
- I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. American
- Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. Melt