More from Truman Capote

  1. 'As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room.'
  2. About Jack Kerouac: 'That's not writing; That's typing.'
  3. 'The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it.'
  4. 'More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.' (The dedication in his last, unfinished work)
  5. 'In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year.'
  6. 'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'
  7. But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes
  8. 'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'

All Truman Capote quotes