Human sympathy has its limits. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Ah,"she cried, "you look so cool."Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table.You always look so cool,"she repeated.She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."

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

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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

"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."