But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining yo… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.' (From: The Offshore Pirate)

We’ll meet you on some corner. I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life — I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved — in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.