In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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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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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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