I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.