The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quotes

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

— Truman Capote

All literature is gossip.

— Truman Capote

Leave it to me: I’m always top banana in the shock department.

— Truman Capote

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.

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

— Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

— Truman Capote

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.

— Truman Capote

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

— Truman Capote

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

— Truman Capote

About New York

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

— Truman Capote

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

— Truman Capote

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

— Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

— Truman Capote

I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn’t being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other’s sure to.

— Truman Capote

She sounds the way bananas taste.

— Truman Capote

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

— Truman Capote

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

— Truman Capote

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

— Truman Capote

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

— Truman Capote

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