Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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