Tom Wolfe Quotes

In the year 2000, a Tolstoy or a Flaubert wouldn’t have stood a chance in the United States.

The Versailles of American corporate culture.

Pornography was the great vice of the Seventies; plutography – the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich – is the great vice of the Eighties.

Today educated people look upon traditional religious ties – Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Jewish – as matters of social pedigree. It is only art that they look upon religiously.

From Bauhaus to Our House.

Not ‘Seeing is Believing’, you ninny, but ‘Believing is Seeing’. For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.