Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

I'm not much like myself any more.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.