F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to be a genius. I want to be a success.

I'm not a writer, I'm a drunk.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues.

I don’t want to repeat my past. I want to make a new one.

I'm not interested in being a celebrity. I'm interested in being an artist.

I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

I don't know what to do with my life. I just know I want to do something.

I'm not a good person. I'm not a bad person. I'm just a person.

I don’t want to be rich. I want to be happy.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a guy who works hard.

I don’t want to be famous. I want to be good.

I’m not a hero. I’m just a guy who tries.

I hate to be a man. I wish I was a woman.

I'm not a victim. I'm a survivor.

I don't know what's wrong with me. I just know something is.

I'm not perfect. I'm not even good. But I'm trying.

I’m not a monster. I’m just a man.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.