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 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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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