I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

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

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.

Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly