They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.