The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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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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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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