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

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

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

"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"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."