Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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