The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald