Tom Wolfe : (3) " I wrote ‘The Painted Word,’ about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. " - Tom Wolfe " To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don’t know and you assume that many of your readers don’t know, and you try to bring them to life on the page. " - Tom Wolfe " The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. " - Tom Wolfe