Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

...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.

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

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses