F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a god or a devil. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm a saint or a sinner.

I must be a fantastic, or I should not be where I am.

It was always the becoming he loved, never the being.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere.

I left my heart in San Francisco. No, I left it in a bar.

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.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I’m not a romantic, I’m a realist. I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in right now.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

I want to be a part of those who make the world a better place, not just those who consume it.

Life is essentially a cheat and a disappointment to a man who has attained forty years, who has for twenty years sweet-talked himself into the believe that life was a good thing.

I talk too much, I think too much, I love too much.

I’m not a writer. I’m a typist.

I wish I could write about all the things I think about, but I don't know how to put them into words.

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I write because I have to. I write because I can’t not write.