I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

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.