My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. Tom Wolfe More Quotes by Tom Wolfe More Quotes From Tom Wolfe You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. Tom Wolfe heaven people If you label it this, then it can't be that. Tom Wolfe labels ifs 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. Tom Wolfe greek age thinking It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed. Tom Wolfe battle important animal No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. Tom Wolfe machines speech brain Nonfiction is never going to die. Tom Wolfe nonfiction dies I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. Tom Wolfe empires mets wanted America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down! Tom Wolfe running mean country 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. Tom Wolfe aeneas age time 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. Tom Wolfe pieces numbers years 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. Tom Wolfe curves simple men 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. Tom Wolfe loyalty country years They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard. Tom Wolfe games beautiful people Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. Tom Wolfe pages people thinking On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. Tom Wolfe wall three business I'm a great believer in outlines. Tom Wolfe outlines believer Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. Tom Wolfe melting miami stones 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. Tom Wolfe determined people world I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for. Tom Wolfe voting should thinking God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. Tom Wolfe journalism stories forever
