Quotes from Truman Capote

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.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

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

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

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.

Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

I can see every monster as they come in.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

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

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.