I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines giv… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.