F. Scott Fitz

• "He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
  - Ch. 8

"I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before"

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."  

"The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."