Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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