I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.