My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.