Truman Capote Quotes

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

I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

One day she told the class, ‘Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that’s one definition of a lady.’

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”

A sensible question, as Mrs. Clare, an admirer of logic, though a curious interpreter of it, was driven to admit.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

"Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old."

Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.

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

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quiteness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there