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Tom Wolfe Quotes

American - Journalist | March 2, 1931 -

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.

Believe Problem Mad Places Way High

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.

Communication Quality Joy People

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

History Great Me American Wave Now

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

Universe Wall Three Street Become

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Conservative Liberal Been Arrested

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

Painting Go See Without Days Theory

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

Book Long First Being Terrible

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

Style Writing You Bad Why Newspaper

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.

Great Year Bad My Own Never Own

I'm a great believer in outlines.

Great Believer Great Believer

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

American Build Never Empire Who Met

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

Wait Never Forget Easy Find I Can

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