We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
TRUMAN CAPOTESometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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