F. Scott Fitzgerald — "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."

"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."

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

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

"You don't just happen to write a novel. It's a conscious decision, an act of will."