F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning."

"He looked at her the way all women hope to be looked at by some man."

"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can, and it does."

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

"Life itself is the greatest teacher."

"The promise of marriage is an attempt to make the permanent of a relationship."

"Modern times demand modern virtues."

"The idea, the central idea of being superior because one's forebears have been rich."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

"There are no second acts in American life, but there are unexpected footnotes."

"It's a wonderful feeling to be writing, it takes you away from the world."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened."

"I've been reading your latest novel, and I want to congratulate you on your honest work."

"We are all functioning at a small percentage of our capacity."

"The maturing of a man is the maturing of his sense of humor."

"Writing is work. Just because you have paper and a pen doesn't mean you're a writer."

"He loved her, and now he didn't love her anymore."

"The true aristocrat does not tell the intimate facts of his life to the stranger on the street."

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm of persons."

"The man has no friends because he thinks everyone wants him for his money."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"Winter comes, and goes, and all that remains is the memory."

"He fell in love with the idea of being in love."

"The beautiful thing about writing is that you don't have to explain yourself."

"Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Do you know what flattery is? It's telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself."

"The hardest thing to understand is why we ever stop being young."

"All the joy in the world cannot equal a single great beauty."

"The most beautiful things that we have come from disorder and change, not permanence."

"You can't repeat the past."