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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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