"A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community."

“The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

Source : Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "War Shrines" (1922)

“My life exists in an imagined reality.”

“To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.”

“Writing is an incredibly lonely job.”

“I didn't want to be an artist.”

“The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.149, Macmillan

“Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.”