America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true..

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug..

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you..

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand..

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write..

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books..

Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who ….

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street po….

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one..

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience..