I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

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!

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