experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)

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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.

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