Meet the swans.

"But he's got a point, I should feel guilty.

Not because they would have given me the part or because

 I would have been good: they wouldn't and I wouldn't.

If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because

 I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit.

I was just vamping for time to make a few self-improvements:

 I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star.

It's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing.

My complexes aren't inferior enough: 

being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand;

 actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous.

That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it;

but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along.

I want to still be me when I wake up 

one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's."

Excerpt from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote.

Photographs by jared douglas martin