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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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