More quotes by Truman Capote

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."
"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."