Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThat however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou are mysterious, I love you. Youโre beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and thatโs the rarest known combination.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where thereโs a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
F. Scott FitzgeraldDon't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.
F. Scott Fitzgerald