There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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 always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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