I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary traditio… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

Merlin went up-stairs very quietly at nine o'clock. When he was in his room and had closed the door tight he stood by it for a moment, his thin limbs trembling. He knew now that he had always been a fool. "O Russet Witch!" But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.