All literature is gossip - Truman Capote

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.