The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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