"Youth doesn’t need friends - it only needs crowds."
— Zelda Fitzgerald
"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."
— Zelda Fitzgerald
"I simply state that I’m a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I’ve thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn’t seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game."
— F Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
— F Scott Fitzgerald
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."
— F Scott Fitzgerald The Rich Boy
"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day."
— F Scott Fitzgerald
"There are no second acts in America lives."
— F Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon
"Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken… ."
— F Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
"He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. “I know myself,” he cried, “but that is all — "
— F Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
"The victor belongs to the spoils."
— F Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and the Damned
