The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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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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.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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