Truman Capote

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

— Truman Capote

“You musn't give your heart to a wild thing.”

— Truman Capote

Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

— Truman Capote

think of nothing things think of wind

— Truman Capote

A boy has to peddle his book.

— Truman Capote

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

— Truman Capote

All literature is gossip.

— Truman Capote

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

— Truman Capote

“Silently, wallowing in the pleasures of conspiracy,”

— Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

— Truman Capote

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

— Truman Capote

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

— Truman Capote

“I can't accept overnight what I've always denied.”

— Truman Capote

“Excitement - a variety of creative coma - overcame me.”

— Truman Capote

I despise people who can't control themselves.

— Truman Capote

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

— Truman Capote

“It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder…

— Truman Capote

“Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty dollars.”

— Truman Capote

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody…

— Truman Capote

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing…

— Truman Capote

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”

— Truman Capote

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

— Truman Capote

“Our backs hut from gathering them: how hard they were to find among the concealing leaves, the frosted deceiving grass.”

— Truman Capote

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

— Truman Capote

“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but…

— Truman Capote

Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone…

— Truman Capote

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then…

— Truman Capote

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without…

— Truman Capote

“There's so few things men can talk about. If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he…

— Truman Capote

“It’s like Tiffany’s,” she said. “Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before…

— Truman Capote

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?" "Same as the blues?" "No," she said slowly. "No, the blues are…

— Truman Capote

“Miss Langman was often, in interviews, described as a witty conversationalist; how can a woman be witty when she hasn't a sense…

— Truman Capote

“Then, there on the screen I saw Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. An American Tragedy, a film I'd seen at least twice,…

— Truman Capote

“Sometimes on flat boring afternoons, he'd squatted on the curb of St. Deval Street and daydreamed silent pearly snowclouds into sifting coldly…

— Truman Capote

“Perry said, “Am I sorry? If that’s what you mean—I’m not. I don’t feel anything about it. I wish I did. But…

— Truman Capote

When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the…

— Truman Capote

“Grady for an instant felt the oddest loss: poor Peter, he knew her even less, she realized, than Apple, and yet, because…

— Truman Capote

“My, how foolish I am!” my friend cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the over.…

— Truman Capote

Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him…

— Truman Capote

“All the visitors do make an effort to look their best and it's very tender, it's sweet as hell, the way the…

— Truman Capote