Tom Wolfe Quotes - Page 3

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman.

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

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.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

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

So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

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

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

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

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

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.