he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.