The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIf there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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