He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
F. Scott FitzgeraldArt isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAnd that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.
F. Scott Fitzgerald