Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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