F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

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

"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."

"Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."

"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."

"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"The victor belongs to the spoils."