Truman Capote

“Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he…

— Truman Capote

When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.

— 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

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

— Truman Capote

“It was an atmosphere of luxurious exhaustion, like a ripened, shedding rose, while all that waited outside wad the failing New York…

— Truman Capote

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see…

— Truman Capote

“if concealment is the single weapon, then a villain is never a villain; one smiles to the very end.”

— Truman Capote

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

— Truman Capote

“You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony.…

— Truman Capote

“The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty…

— Truman Capote

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

— 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

“One day she told the class, ‘Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that’s one definition…

— Truman Capote

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet…

— Truman Capote

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

— Truman Capote

...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and…

— Truman Capote

“She was still hugging the cat. “Poor slob,” she said, tickling his head, “poor slob without a name. It’s a little inconvenient,…

— Truman Capote

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional…

— Truman Capote

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.

— Truman Capote

“Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

— Truman Capote

“No one I remember still lives there except Madame Sapphia Spanella, a husky coloratura who every afternoon went roller-skating in Central Park.”

— Truman Capote

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of…

— Truman Capote

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

— Truman Capote

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote