I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Englishmen must have an island.