Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.