The rich are different from us.

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

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.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

A writer wastes nothing.