Life is much more successfully looked at from a single windo... - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

"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."

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

"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."