Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.