Truman Capote Quotes

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable lov...

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

Randolph, he said, do you know something? I'm very happy. To which his friend made no reply. The reason for this happiness seemed to be simply that he did not feel unhappy; rather, he knew all through...

I felt infuriatingly left out -- a tugboat in drydock while she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.

И едва тогава си дадох сметка, че под отлично поддържаната повърхност винаги е имало едно ужасено, давещо се дете.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal...

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn exactly what happened in that house that night. Twice now he'd been told, and the two versions were v...

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, sh...

Then, there on the screen I saw Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. An American Tragedy, a film I'd seen at least twice, not that it was all that great, but still it was very good, especially the f...

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a k...

Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.

We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.

In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.