We live in an age in which ideas, important ideas, are worn like articles of fashion — and for precisely the same reason articles of fashion are worn, which is to make the wearer look better and to feel a la mode.
speech graduation authenticity
Tom Wolfe
Boston University Commencement 2000, 2000
An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. It required no intellectual effort whatsoever. Suddenly he was elevated to a plane from which he could look down upon ordinary people.
speech graduation authenticity
Tom Wolfe
Boston University Commencement 2000, 2000
You are graduates of one of the two or three greatest universities in America. You have been raised in a tradition of straight thinking and straight talking.
speech graduation independence
Tom Wolfe
Boston University Commencement 2000, 2000