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“Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?”
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“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”
Source : Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher
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“The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.”
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“Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.”
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“It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.”
Source : "Essays in Disguise" by Wilfrid Sheed, Knopf, (pp. xvi-xvii), 1990.
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“You still owe me a yellow Porsche.”
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“Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.”
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“It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.”
Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume
