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.
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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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 may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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