Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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