There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.