Tom Wolfe

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”

“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid, isolated people, all traveling alone, in packs.”

“You can be a righteous dude and not be a jerk.”

“He who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart. He who is still a socialist at 40 has no head.”

“To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love to find out about things.”

“Vanity is the most despotic and inordinate of desires.”

“There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. It's always a continuation.”

“Radical chic is the glamorization of the primitive.”

“The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet forgotten its taste.”

“All at once you find you are a tourist in your own youth.”

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

“The problem with fiction is that it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”

“One of the few things I've learned is that you should never, ever, ever write about a subject you feel indifferent about.”

“Sometimes you have to be a little bit crazy to do great things.”

“Style is not a fraud. It is a way of seeing.”

“The great thing about journalism is that it is not respectable.”