The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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 was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.