Truman Capote Quotes

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

We learn many things from children, always.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I'm just a sweet little kid.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

I think we all miss our childhood.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

I am forever living in my childhood.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.