Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

We all have souls of different ages

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.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.