Tom Wolfe Quotes

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.
Tom Wolfe

Life, Men, Loneliness

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.
Tom Wolfe

Communication, Everything, Joy

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

Liberal, Arrested, Mugged

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 sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Tom Wolfe

Problem, Put, Mad

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
Tom Wolfe

Love, Live, Expression

A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe

Religion, Power, Political

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

Liberal, Arrested

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Tom Wolfe

Others, Become, Universe

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe

Loneliness, Vanity, Cure

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
Tom Wolfe

Beautiful, Someone, Woman

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Wolfe

Away, Else, Three

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe

Days, Painting, Theory

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

God, Around, Making

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
Tom Wolfe

Wait, Situation, Bit

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

Talk, Voting, Whom

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
Tom Wolfe

Forget, Find, Forgive

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Tom Wolfe

Important, Second, Half

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 have never collected them.
Tom Wolfe

Great, Bad, Year

I'm a great believer in outlines.
Tom Wolfe

Great, Believer, Outlines

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

Wanted, American, Build

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
Tom Wolfe

Before, Read, Page

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

Career, Written, Fiction

My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter'. He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk.
Tom Wolfe

Father, Him, Thought

Nonfiction is never going to die.
Tom Wolfe

Die, Nonfiction

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
Tom Wolfe

Long, Book, After

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 2, 1931

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