583 Quotes by Truman Capote

I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In Jamaica. He just literally lifted the entire theme, plot, and virtually characterization from A High Wind In Jamaica, turned them into a bunch of small boys and placed it on an island. Otherwise it’s precisely the same novel.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren’t worth writing about.

But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius.

If there’s one thing I loathe, it’s men who bite.

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

On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it’s invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily.

Those fellows, they’re always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

And suppose you don’t like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I’d never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always have faith in my own judgment.

Passing through the orchard, Mr. Clutter proceeded along beside the river, which was shallow here and strewn with islands – midstream beaches of soft sand, to which, on Sundays gone by, hot-weather Sabbaths when Bonnie had still “felt up to things,” picnic baskets had been carted, family afternoons whiled away waiting for a twitch at the end of a fishline.