The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.