Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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 believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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