Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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