R.T. Wolfe Quotes

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

I don't trust a government I can't shoot back at

When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

Cacao is not just a food; it is a "superfood".

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

O lost, And by the wind grieved, Ghost, Come back again.

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

You cannot have chocolate without cacao. The cacao bean is chocolate. All chocolate contains at least some ground up cacao beans.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

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

I'm a great believer in outlines.

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

War is an option of difficulties.

Our body craves what is in our bloodstream. Wheat, sugar, alcohol, coffee & de-vitalized foods are designed to be addictive!

The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

I wish I could be invisible and just play music and not have to worry about anyone looking at me.

Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany. Maligned, lied about, persecuted and threatened. Afraid, confused and angry.

This is an an abundant universe. Grasp your birthright. Success is a massive abundance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

Nature's solution to pollution is dilution.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to!

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

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.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.