Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

There are no second acts in American lives.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.