I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

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

"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 wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."