To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

No one should live beyond 30.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

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

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.