I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.