And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small part... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."

"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."