“Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.”
“Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
“Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!”
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---”
“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
“There was, he thought, probably something in the idea that there were only a few people in the world. There were lots of bodies, but only a few people. That's why you kept running into the same ones.”