Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.