Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.