“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful...” — Tom Wolfe Quote

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

“Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.”

“I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.”

“In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to be the nature of the beast. The biographical notes on the dustjackets of the novels were terrific.”

“Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.”

“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.”

“Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.”

“Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.”

“Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.”

“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.”

“My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.”

“The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.”