F. Scott Fitzgerald

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"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."

"All the bright precious things fade so fast."

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."

"I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

"We are all fools in love."

"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."

"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Life is too short to be boring."

"That's the difference between having money and not having it."

"I believe that love is a doing word."

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

"Wisdom is perhaps underrated in the young."

"You're a rotten driver. No, you are. Whenever I see you drive, I go to sleep."

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever after."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"There's no such thing as a second act in American lives."

"To be kind is more important than to be right."

"I left my heart in Paris."

"They're careless people. They smash up things and creatures."

"The rich are different."

"Her voice was full of money."

"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"The test of a writer is not how much he can write, but how selectively he can write."

"Winter dreams."