I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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There 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.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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