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 WolfeDear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...
Tom WolfeIt'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 WolfeEverything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
Tom Wolfe