The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger- - F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.