232 Quotes by Tom Wolfe

She’s a gambler. She’s not the type to play it safe. She likes to mix it up, and her game is – well, it’s men. Your game is the law, mine is investments, hers is men.

As Sigmund Freud would put it thirty-five years later in similar circumstances, “Many enemies, much honor.” Darwin.

I don’t think journalists should talk about whom they’re voting for.

What have the breathtaking advances in communications technology done for the human mind? Beats me. SAT scores among the top tenth of high-school students in the United States, that fraction who are prime candidates for higher education in any period, are lower today than they were in the early 1960s. Believe, if you wish, that computers and the Internet in the classroom will change all that, but I assure you, it is sheer Digibabble.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into ‘the aware’, those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of ‘the unaware’, ‘the unmusical’, ’the unattuned.

There are going to be times when you can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus.

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.

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.

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