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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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