I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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]