Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

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

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived