The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

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.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

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

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

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

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.