i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

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!