Thomas Wolfe

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.