The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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