His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time.
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.