In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- three minutes; to collect the data in it-- all my life.

“Amory wandered slowly up the avenue and thought of the night as inevitably his-…”

“The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all pres…”

“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”

“I love her and that's the beginning of everything...”