Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all — Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…