How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in 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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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If 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.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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