Thomas Wolfe quotes

" Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. " # Culture # Arts and Artists # Belief

" You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. " # Success # Compliments # Money

" A cult is a religion with no political power. " # Cult # Politicians and Politics # Religion

" There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. " # Cooking # Love # Beauty

" The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. " # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Memory

" Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. " # Life and Living # Desire # Love

" Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. " # Death and Dying # Wordiness # Life and Living

" It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. " # Leaders and Leadership # Madness # Problems

" A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. " # Liberals # Conservatives # Politicians and Politics

" Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. " # Architecture # Love # Intelligence and Intellectuals