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.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

It takes two to make an accident.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.