“I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.”

“Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.”

“Grady felt a chill echo, the kind that comes when, in an original situation, one has the sensation of its all having occurred before: if we know the past, and live the present, is it possible that we dream the future?”

“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”

“I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.”

“To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult.Truman Capote”

“Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.”