"One meets these occasions as quickly and carelessly as possible and retires once more back into the dream, hoping that things will adjust themselves by some great material or spiritual bonanza. But as the withdrawal persists there is less and less chance of the bonanza - one is not waiting for the fade-out of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own personality ..."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936 interview with The New York Post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/18/classics.fscottfitzgerald/print

This, a wrenching interview with a broken Fitzgerald. I'm reminded of what Clive James wrote - "Fitzgerald's prose style can be called ravishing because it brings anguish with its enchantment."