Notable Quote – Tom Wolfe

The notion of a self…who exercises self-discipline, postpones gratification, curbs the sexual appetite, stops short of aggression and criminal behavior – a self that can become more intelligent and lift itself to the very peaks of life by its own bootstraps through study, practice, perseverance, and refusal to give up in the face of great odds – this old-fashioned notion…of success through enterprise and true grit is slipping away…The peculiarly American faith in the power of the individual to transform himself from a helpless cipher into a giant among men…is now as moribund as the god fro whom Nietzche wrote an obituary in 1882.

- Tom Wolfe