A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the pink-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

After supper, they saw Kabuki to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Albury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All good writing is swimming underwater and holding your breath.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All I think of ever is that I love you.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

— F. Scott Fitzgerald