I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghosty heart.

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

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...

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.