Truman Capote Quotes

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

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

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

She sounds the way bananas taste.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

Let's take everything just as it is.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

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

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

I'm not a philosopher.

I'm not a character in any of my books.

think of nothing things think of wind