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

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.