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.

Yes, the labour movement was truly religious, like Judaism itself. It was one of those things you believed in for all mankind and didn’t care about for a second in your own life.

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.

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.