Truman Capote

"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone...."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage."

"In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. However, even an attorney of moderate talent can pos…"

"The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit,…"

"The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natura…"

"“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat."

"“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity."