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

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

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.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

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.

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote