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

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.