Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

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 gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...