F. Scott Fitzgerald — "I’m not a genius. I’m just a guy who works hard."

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

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

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should b…"

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

"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."