I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

Carson bought a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forster but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be establiTruman Capoted sustained by revenues from Capote's works to fund various literary prizes fellowships and scholarships including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30 1924 – August 25 1984) known as Truman Capote (pron. In the 1970s he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 11 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability.