Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Angry as I was, as I was, I was willing to let it go.

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

He waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths – so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning –

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby