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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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