232 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

You're either on the bus or off the bus.

You’re either on the bus or off the bus.

A sublime state, it was, and it didn’t cost much. The bus stop was only across the street. There was scarcely a chance for his impatience over Campbell’s tiny step to spoil this refreshing nip of fatherhood he took each morning.

By the time he reached the front door, the truth had hit him. Through stupidity, incompetence, and funk he had now managed to lose his one last hope. Oh, Master of the Universe.

All of them, artists and theorists, were talking as if their conscious aim was to create a totally immediate art, lucid, stripped of all the dreadful baggage of history, an art fully revealed, honest, as honest as the flat-out integral picture plane.

I make out a schoolbus... glowing orange, green, magenta, lavender, chlorine blue, every fluorescent pastel imaginable in thousands of designs, both large and small, like a cross between Fernand Liger and Dr. Strange, roaring together and vibrating off each other as if somebody had given Hieronymous Bosch fifty buckets of day-glo paint and a 1939 International Harvester schoolbus and told him to go to it.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you’re weak.

The power of the human brain was so far beyond the boundaries of natural selection that the term became meaningless in explaining the origins of man.

The Avalon even had it down to details like the strobes and sections of the floor where you could play with Day-Glo paint under black light.