The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.