In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.