You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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The 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.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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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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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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