America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

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 Quote

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

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 Quote

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

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 Quote

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions - Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

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.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
- Tom Wolfe Quote

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
- Tom Wolfe Quote