you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

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

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.