You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The 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.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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