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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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 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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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