The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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