* “What’s that about? Why you get the itch? Why you wanna hurt yourself? Why does it feel so bad to feel good? Why doesn’t anything seem real? Why nothin’ seem to fit? Why nothin’ seem to work out? Why everything seem to make sense except you?”
* "I wish to God I was rich again."
* “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
* “When love is gone there’s only pain.”
* “That is one mark of a top-flight man. He is always willing to try something different.”
* "I hope she'll be a beautiful fool--that's the best kind."
* “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
* “My father gave me the name Jay Gatsby. He didn't care. So I changed it.”