You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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