Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

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.