232 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

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.

You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

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

This was safe enough – the shape didn’t move, at least – but it could do terrible thing to, let us say, the gyroscope of the soul.

John McCormack’s rising in the House of Representatives to say that the United States faced “national extinction” if she did not overtake the Soviet Union in the.

To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved into Michelangelo’s David. Speech is what man pays homage to in every moment he can imagine.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...

Only such a power, “a new power of definite character,” can account for “ever-advancing” man.53 Whatever that power is, it is infinitely more important than mere natural selection.

Sometimes we don’t even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.