I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.