Fitzgerald is amazing, even though none of these quotes is giving me an introduction paragraph for my essay... Ahh.. Wasting precious minutes basking in the beauty of his words:

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night

"Riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky, I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

That reminds me of "The Hours"