Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You cant have too many friends because then youre just not really friends. – Truman Capote
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. – Truman Capote
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable. – Truman Capote
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. Thats why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. – Truman Capote
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. – Hans Urs von Balthasar