Tom Wolfe
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
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.
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?
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.
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.
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.
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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.
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.
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
A cult is a religion with no political power.