“People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that...” — Tom Wolfe Quote

“People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.”

“Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric 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.”

“On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.”

“That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.”

“If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.”

“By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.”

“I fight, and the money I make, I use it until I fight again. But I don't complain. This is the life I asked God to have, to be able to do what I do and be better every day.”

“I'm so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don't dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.”

“I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.”

“Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.”

“I speak with a lot of players who have stopped playing and they go to the gym for two hours a day and say 'now I run 10km a day.' When they were still playing they would complain about running for 10 minutes!”

“There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.”