Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.