Truman Capote: More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Truman Capote: I have 94 per cent recall of all conversation. I tested it myself.
Truman Capote: Perry, I know what 'exacerbate' means.
Perry Smith: Okay... well...
Truman Capote: There is not a word or a sentence or a concept that you can illuminate for me.
Truman Capote: Sometimes when I think of how good my book is going to be, I can't breathe.
Truman Capote: On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men - the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night.
Nelle Harper Lee: How did you like the movie?
[referring to To Kill a Mockingbird]
Truman Capote: [Muttering after she wanders off] I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Truman Capote: I had lunch with Jimmy Baldwin the other day.
Party date: How is he?
Truman Capote: He's lovely, he's a lovely man. And he told me the plot of his new book. And he said, "I just wanted to make sure it's not one of those problem novels," you know. And I said , "Jimmy. Your book is about a Negro homosexual who's in love
with a Jew. Wouldn't you call that a problem?"
[everyone laughs]
Truman Capote: If I leave here without understanding you, the world will see you as a monster. Always. And I don't want that.
Truman Capote: God, I'm glad you agreed to come. You're the only person I know with the qualifications to be both a research assistant and a personal bodyguard.
Nelle Harper Lee: Thank you.
[last title cards]
Title card: _In Cold Blood_ made Truman Capote the most famous writer in America. He never finished another book.
Title card: The epigraph he chose for his last, unfinished work reads: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
Title card: He died in 1984 of complications due to alcoholism.
Truman Capote: [to Perry Smith] We're not so different as you might think.