I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.
It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.