To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
Truman Capote: Perry, I know what 'exacerbate' means. Perry Smith: Okay... well... Truman Capote: There is not a word or a sentence or a concept that you can illuminate for me.
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee'...
Happiness is a warm puppy.
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.
Happiness is loving your enemies.
Writing and Painting are the same for me.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
The '60s were an amazing time.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
What's a hero if not for its journey.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
