583 Quotes by Truman Capote

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

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

And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.