"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you--like music to the musician. . .--or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pendants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
- F. [Francis] Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)