I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Quote More from F. Scott Fitzgerald “Character is plot, plot is character.” “Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.” “This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-…” “Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.”