I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.