I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
F. Scott Fitzgerald