It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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