Quotes by Tom Wolfe

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and its an example of freedom from religion.

Working on newspapers, youre writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women cant drive, things like that. Thats about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

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 of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Once you have speech, you dont have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you dont like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

Nerds... the nerd has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

This is the artist, then, lifes hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beautys miser, glorys slave.

Its not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - its that it feeds the imagination.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting you have the people on the right. But the trains on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

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 to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.