“ There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Thomas Wolfe
“ From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.The voi… Thomas Wolfe
“ You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe
“ If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has glorious… Thomas Wolfe
“ In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. Thomas Wolfe
“ 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. Thomas Wolfe
“ That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan. Thomas Wolfe
“ I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not o… Thomas Wolfe
“ You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some… Thomas Wolfe
“ Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe
“ Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you. Thomas Wolfe
“ Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen h… Thomas Wolfe
“ What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely n… Thomas Wolfe
“ Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe
“ 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. Thomas Wolfe
