Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.