Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the ba... - Truman Capote

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."

"all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."

"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."