Truman Capote

“Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.”

“You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.”

“A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.”

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

“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”

“All literature is gossip.”

“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”

“Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.”

“No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.”

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

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