[Gertrude Stein] thinks Fitzgerald will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten.

Ist dir das schon mal passiert? Dass du unheimlich viel von einer unbekannten Person hältst, und wenn du sie persönlich kennenlernst, ist alles anders. Weißt du, was ich meine?

"It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.”


"Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”


“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”


“I am practicing being kind over being right.”

“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily.”

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

While the controversy between Freud and Jung concerned theoretical matters, the exchange could not have been more personal; Anna Freud later remembered that the summer of 1913, just before their final break, was the only time she could remember her father depressed.