F. Scott Fitzgerald

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. ”

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ”

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. ”

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. ”

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ”

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. ”

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. ”

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ”

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”