F. Scott Fitzgerald

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.