Tom Wolfe Quotes

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

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.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions—Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses.

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

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

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

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art ... is merely romantic fiction.... The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

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