Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.