A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.