“I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word conno...” — Tom Wolfe Quote

“I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!”

“Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.”

“My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.”

“Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!”

“It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.”

“It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.”