The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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