Truman Capote Quotes - Page 5

I can see every monster as they come in.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

A boy has to peddle his book.

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

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

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; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

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?

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. 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 quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

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.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Let's take everything just as it is.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.