This book is a collection of 186 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of F. Scott Fitzgerald:

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"Action is character."

"Forgotten is forgiven."

"There are no second acts in American lives."

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

"The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer — the charm of women and the courage of men."