It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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