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]

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.