“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves.”

“I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but let me submit to you that Daisy Buchanan doesn’t have to be likable to be interesting… That’s the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels. You get to see yourself as others see you, and you get to see others as they see themselves.”

“How others see you is not importantHow you see yourself means everything”

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. ”

“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

“A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.”