Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

My big fish must be somewhere.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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.

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.